Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later
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Thank you for the link to this story. It makes one wonder about our so-called progress in forcing people to move, flooding an area that was providing homes, businesses, and burial sites -- only to have it revealed by an act of nature once again. I do hope people can get all of the headstone information recorded before it might possibly be lost again.
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