Culpeper VA officials: no plans to accept A.P. Hill monument

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C. SUAREZ ROJAS
Richmond Times-Dispatch Sep 27, 2021

... Culpeper Deputy Clerk Ashley Clatterbuck said Monday that the town has been in contact with a Richmond-area funeral home only about relocating Hill’s remains, which are buried underneath the monument, to Fairview Cemetery. She said there’s been no discussion otherwise about the town accepting the monument or locating it at the cemetery.

“We started talking about it around midsummer last year, and it’s been strictly through Bennett Funeral Home. ... They’re the ones working with the city,” Clatterbuck said. “The funeral home has never mentioned or asked about the monument” ...

https://roanoke.com/news/state-and-regional/culpeper-town-officials-say-they-have-no-plans-to-accept-richmond-monument-of-a-p/article_672abf90-7fb1-57ac-9f5f-e505113cddfb.html

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1. Remains of A.P. Hill could be re-interred in Culpeper's Fairview Cemetery

Allison Brophy Champion
Sep 27, 2021

... The A.P. Hill Monument located in a traffic circle at the intersection of Hermitage Road and Labernum Avenue in the state capital is the only remaining Confederate statue still standing in Richmond. It is a burial site as well and contains at least partial human remains of Ambrose Powell Hill Jr., born Nov. 9, 1825 in Culpeper.

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney last year ordered that all Confederate monuments would come down around the city. The A.P. Hill statue, however, presents a more unique challenge due to it being a burial site.

Jim Nolan, spokesman for Stoney, provided the most updated information on the matter ...

“Pending approval in Circuit Court, our current understanding is the family wishes for the remains to be re-interred in a cemetery in Culpeper,” Nolan said ...

https://starexponent.com/news/remains-of-confederate-gen-a-p-hill-could-be-re-interred-to-culpepers-fairview-cemetery/article_8f8d65b4-7775-5f7a-9a07-3b950096d964.html

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2. I was just in Culpeper Va a couple of weeks ago.

So interesting to see an article about a Confederate monument in a town I assumed was quite red. Although, I was there for a wedding with family relations at a very rustic winery. Family is bi-racial and live there.

Took a little time when I arrived the day before of the wedding to check out downtown and have lunch with my daughter.

It was really very lovely and the choices of diverse array of cuisine and restaurants, as well as the servers sort of blew my mind. It felt as though I might be in a historic town populated by Californian East Bay folks.

I fell in love with Virginia to be honest.