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To whom it should concern;
July 17, 1996
In Feb. 1995 I joined the Sons of the Confederate Veterans to maintain the Heritage and to place a stone or plate on my Great Grandfathers grave. On July 10,1996 I decide to not wait to get a stone or plate.
On July 11,1996 I go to the Coroner Norman Sims and order four metal markers for the graves of Reuben McCarty, Nancy Johnson McCarty and two sons, Solomon McCarty and Charles McCarty.
At 12:30 today I load my car with buckets, shovel and hoe to prepare these graves for the markers. At one o clock today I find that a pack of Pittmans have been buried on top of my four ancestors. This was done after the area was closed by the government to build the test site. This may have given the Pittmans the belief that it is legal to bury themselves on top of my ancestors family.
In the same year that I find out who lynched my cousin for crimes he did not commit, I find that all four of my McCarty ancestors have Pittmans on top of them.
I did not see the lynching, but I will see the Pittmans on top of ancestors every day.
If this is legal then John F. Kennedy was the luckiest man in the U.S. His Great Grandson will probably not see anyone buried on top of him.
This almost makes me wish I did not know where my ancestors are buried.
In my opinion, the Pittmans got themselves buried on top of, or in place of the Reuben McCarty family because they lived about 10 miles from the cemetery.
They can not claim to have not known that the Reuben McCarty family was buried there because a Turtleskin Cem. grave registration book was printed five months before they start'ed burying themselves on top of the Reuben McCarty family. The book shows that graves 98, 99, 100, and 101 are occupied. Also the local historian Hilda Hoffman saw wooden markers on these graves the last time she was in this cem.
Another thing that may have given the Pittmans the belief that they could be buried on top of or in place of the Reuben McCarty family is the fact that Reubens wife Nancy Johnson was one quater Choctaw.
I have a picture of her sister who was Reubens second wife and anyone can see that she is indian.
I have the ancestral documentation that proves that she was one quater Choctaw and I can point to the place where the Choctaw settlement was in 1800. Pottery and arrowpoints are still in the ground there.
I heard a rumor in the last few years that the bones of someone had been thrown over the back fence at Turtleskin cem. If this is true, then it proves that this county is unfit to live in.
Please note that all of this has been done to a Civil War Veteran.
I was living in Baton Rouge, La. when the above happened.
John C. McCarty	With	utmost	sincerity;
46 Checker Mitchell Rd.
Picayune, Ms.
39466