Kenneth Dexter Randolph Jr. Funeral (Oakwood Cemetery)
Kenneth Dexter Randolph, Jr., 29, died on October 8, 2019 in Tochigi, Japan while visiting his brother. Dexter is survived by his mother, Kim Shavlik Randolph; his father, Kenny Randolph; his brother, Shavlik Randolph; his sister, Senna Randolph; his grandmother, Beverly Shavlik (“Gigi”); his uncle, Dean Shavlik (Barrie); his cousins, Jane Barrett and Becca Shavlik all of Raleigh, NC. He is also survived by his uncle, Craig Randolph (Tanya) of Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and his beloved black lab “Lindsay.
Dexter is predeceased by his grandfathers, Ronnie Shavlik and Eddie Randolph; his grandmother, JoAnn Padgett Randolph, and his uncle, Rick Randolph.
Dexter was born in Raleigh, NC on January 13, 1990. He grew up in Raleigh and attended Root Elementary, Daniels Middle School, and Broughton High School, Class of 2008. He played Varsity Basketball and Lacrosse at Broughton and was a member of the student council.
Dexter graduated from North Carolina State University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sport Management and a Minor Degree in Music. While at N. C. State, he was a member of the SAE fraternity and also the University Jazz Band where he played bass guitar. During his senior year he was awarded an internship at Live Nation. He worked for Live Nation after graduating from N.C. State. Playing the guitar and writing music was his PASSION, his heart and his soul. Rarely did he go anywhere without his beloved guitar. He was a talented musician and some of his favorite music memories start with the early days, live at Crowley’s, to open mics around town, to moving to Nashville, TN, and even being a featured artist on the YouTube channel, Jam in the Van.
Dexter was his happiest when he was traveling with his brother “Shav”. He traveled the world with him. He was “one of a kind” and loved others with a compassionate heart. “If you met him, you knew him, you loved him”.
A graveside service to honor and celebrate his life is planned for Friday, October 18, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. at Historic Oakwood Cemetery. We strongly encourage casual attire, as Dexter would prefer.
For those who would like to give a gift to honor Dexter, please consider BAND TOGETHER, P.O. Box 6445, Raleigh, NC 27628, bandtogethernc.org/donate or to a charity of your choice.
Our family appreciates and is so thankful for all the outpouring of love we have received. While we are heartbroken and our grief is unimaginable, Dexter would want all of us to know that “it is always darkest before the dawn”. As his favorite musician Jimi Hendrix would say, “the story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again.”
Arrangements by Brown-Wynne, 300 Saint Mary's St., Raleigh, NC.
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Oakwood Cemetery. Confederate Memorial Service 2010
Virgil H. Goode, Jr. is the guest speaker at this Memorial Day Service at Oakwood Cemetery in Martinsville, Virginia. May 29, 2010 @ 11 am. He urges us to read the real history of the causes of the war, which was not limited to slavery. Sponsored by the Mildred Lee Chapter, UDC and Stuart Hairston Camp, SCV. Presentation of the Colors and Military Salute by the Stuart Hairston Camp, SCV. Commander Daniel Young. Welcome and ritual given by Mrs. Jean Rood.
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@ 4:44...The issue of slavery came up. I will agree that slavery was a factor in the War Between the States, but it was not, as many would have you believe today, the only cause of the conflict between 1861 and 1865.
We only have to look at what Abraham Lincoln said and did in that regard. Shortly after his election, Lincoln, who is hailed as the Great Emancipator in the end of slavery in United States, endorsed a Constitutional amendment to make slavery permanent in the fifteen southern states. He also offered to help (this is Abraham Lincoln) southern masters return runaway slaves.
Then, when it came time in 1863 on the Emancipation Proclamation, it only covered the states that were in the Confederacy. It omitted Delaware; it omitted Maryland; it omitted Kentucky and it omitted Missouri. And in 1862, Lincoln wrote ?Harris Freeland? that if he could preserve the Union, slavery was fine with him (and I'm paraphrasing).
So for those historians who want to say that the Civil War was fought only for slavery, I say take another look at history. Read the facts, and see that there were many causes.
I know that in Virginia, Virginia did not join the Confederacy until the troops from the north were gonna march in the south.
And I know the representative from Franklin county, and I'm not sure about Henry county, but Jubal Early was one of the representatives, and you all know him, famous Confederate general who was born in Franklin county, he went to the convention in Richmond to vote on the succession, and he was elected on the platform of not succeeding. But after the action that occurred in the north, and the call for Virginia, and North Carolina and Tennessee to take up arms against South Carolina, they reversed course and voted for succession. To say that they succeeded only because of slavery is just flat wrong. I would urge the rewriters of history and those that do textbooks to analyze all the facets of the Civil War, or the War Between the States, wherever the textbook writer is from, and get it right!
Travel to Historic Jefferson, Texas
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Grove hill cemetery in Dallas TX
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9 monuments vandalized in Confederate section of Raleigh cemetery, officials say
Several monuments were vandalized Wednesday night in the Confederate section of a Raleigh cemetery, officials say.
Confederate monument in front of Texas state capitol vandalized with paint
Austin, Texas (KXAN) - A statue in front of the Texas Capitol was vandalized with red paint Sunday morning.
The Confederate Dead monument in front of the Capitol along Eleventh Street had red paint splattered on one side, while the other side had the word 'racists' written with spray paint.
The monument was erected in 1903 as a memorial for Texas Confederate soldiers.
There is no word yet as to when exactly the vandalism happened. The monument has since been cleaned.
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Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
The federal government established the first national cemeteries during and immediately after the Civil War to provide honorable final resting places for soldiers who died in defense of the Union. However, it was also responsible for the burial of Confederate soldiers who died while being held as prisoners of war (POW). In some cases Confederate POWs were buried in designated sections of what would become national cemeteries, such as Finn’s Point, NJ, and Woodlawn NY; elsewhere, grounds were created specifically solely for Confederates, as at Rock Island and Camp Chase Confederate cemeteries.
Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), oversees nine Confederate cemeteries associated with POW camps, in addition to burials strewn throughout more than two dozen national cemeteries. Three national cemeteries—all located in states that ceded from the Union—contain the graves of Confederate soldiers who died during the war but not as prisoners, and Confederate veterans who died as recently as the 1940s.
More than thirty monuments associated with Southern sacrifice are located in these national and Confederate cemeteries. Some, erected by the federal government in the first half of the twentieth century, function as “group” grave markers; other memorial monuments were erected by Confederate heritage groups.
Federal policies that led to the acquisition, marking and care of these Confederate burial places reflect a spirit of national healing that was fueled, in part, by the common experience of the Spanish-American War (1898-99). Government stewardship of Confederate burials and cemeteries began in earnest at the end of the nineteenth century with the reburial of Confederate remains scattered throughout Arlington National Cemetery into a single section, with each grave marked by a new headstone designed with a pointed or peaked top. New legislation enacted early in the twentieth century established the Commission for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, which from 1906 to 1916 operated to document all burials of Confederate POWs in states that remained loyal to the Union and marked the graves with the “Arlington-style” headstone. The passage of time between the war’s end and the commission’s charter resulted in the loss of information about many burials, so a group memorial was erected at some cemeteries. Several sites are marked by monumental obelisk memorials, such as those at cemeteries in Alton, IL, and Point Lookout, MD. Legislation passed in 1914 and 1929 authorized the government to furnish headstones for Confederate graves in all national cemeteries and in “city, town, and village cemeteries.”
In 1973, eighty-two national cemeteries and thirty-two soldiers’ lots—including Confederate sites—were transferred from the U.S. Army to what became NCA. NCA also took responsibility for providing “government headstones or markers at the expense of the United States for the unmarked graves of…Soldiers of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War (38 USC § 2306)” who are buried worldwide. Ceremonial activities associated with recognizing the Confederacy is very limited; for example, the use of Confederate flags in memorial programs are confined to NCA cemeteries where Confederates are interred.
The Confederate legacy can be a contentious subject, and renewed interest in memorialization continues to challenge NCA with its limited authority to provide federal burial benefits for those who served the Confederacy in the Civil War.
This presentation is based on an ongoing study initiated by NCA and undertaken by Cultural Resource Associates Inc. of eighteen NCA cemeteries that contain significant numbers of Confederate interments and monuments. NCA is slated to publish the study, and will be installing interpretive wayside signage at all its Confederate sites to tell the varied stories of these places. Today NCA manages more than 131 national cemeteries and thirty-three soldiers’ lots.
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From Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg.
Featuring Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Natchez City Cemetery and the Chapel of the Cross Cemetery in Madison County.
Cemeteries around the state are hallowed places that tell us a lot about our history, like Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, one of the country’s oldest and largest cemeteries that’s still in use today. Then we head up to Friendship Cemetery in Columbus where our national Memorial Day holiday has its roots. Down Highway 61 in Natchez, many of the state’s first settlers found their resting places. Finally, the haunting story of Henry Vick at Chapel of the Cross in Madison County plays a central role in that area’s history.
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The Witch's Grave
A short video showing the Witch's Grave and Magnolia Cemetery in Katy, TX. The gravesite has been the scene of alleged paranormal acrivity.
Texas and the Confederate controversy over statues, rallies
In the Texas Political Roundup: Lawmakers cleared out of Austin this week having passed bills for about half of Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda. Will they be back to finish the job?
Plus, in the wake of the white nationalist protest in Virginia, Gov. Greg Abbott weighs in on the removal of confederate statues as Texas A&M blocks a similar event from happening on campus.
Disclosure: Texas A&M University has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.
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Strange Town: The Living Inn - Austin's Inn at Pearl Street - REAL STORIES - REAL EVIDENCE
We are in the oldest neighborhood in Austin, Judges Hill, just blocks from the University of Texas. The Inn at Pearl Street was a once abandoned building, now turned modern day bed and breakfast. A home that used to belong to a well respected judge in the early 1900’s.
Guests and staff have reported mysts, shadows, apparitions, and other unexplained poltergeist activity. Throughout the building, music and disembodied footsteps are also heard.
Are the Judge and his family still inhabiting their former home?
Find out on this episode when we investigate Austin's Inn at Pearl Street.
REAL GHOST. REAL EVIDENCE.
Find out more about this episode at strange-town.com/episode-6/
NTParanormal: After Dark (Cox Bend)
An isolated family plot hidden deep in the woods of Glenrose Texas. Most of the people buried here don't have markers. Half of the children here didn't even have names when they were buried. It's a sad reminder of how hard life was back then and how much we struggled to build what we have today. May the souls of Cox Bend rest in peace.
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Researchers dig for Contraband Slave Graves at Fort Monroe
Built sometime between 1819 and 1834 Fort Monroe protected Hampton Roads during the Civil War. From here General Benjamin Butler made his famous contraband decision, which states slaves who escaped from the confederate south would not be returned to their owners.
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As part of the Base Realignment and Closure decision of 2005 to close Fort Monroe, scientists from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory with the assistance of employees from the Norfolk District are looking for unmarked grave sites (NAT SOUND POP) that could possibly contain contraband or freed slaves dating back to the Civil War.
Paul Presenza, One of the activities they will be doing is looking for possible contraband cemetery here on the post. We've done some archival research; we've done a number of other things and including ground penetrating radar magnetometer studies to see if there is anything out there.
That data showed anomalies that could possibly be grave site since the findings were positioned parallel to one another and similar in length. The archeologist picked several different sites to investigate so they would have a variety of samplings.
Rob Reali, All of the graves here at the post cemetery were picked up and moved in the early twentieth century and there is no documentation of any contraband of free slaves being buried here, but we are doing the archeological dig investigating to see if there are any remnants of freed slaves or contraband.
After a two week investigation no grave sites were located, but some broken pottery was found.
A report of the findings will be made available in August. Go to monroe.army.mil and click on the BRAC Information link and navigate to the Section 106.
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#Confederate Flag at the of grave Sgt. Goddard at theYantic Cemetery in #Norwich #ConfederateFlag @n
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One Thread of Six Flags – Col. Richard B. Hubbard of the Twenty-Second Texas Infantry
Richard Bennett Hubbard, also known as Dick, was born in Walton County, Georgia, on November 1, 1832, to Richard B. Hubbard Sr. and Serena Carter. Upon the family’s plantation near Monroe, he developed a firm sense of family and Southern ideals. By all accounts, he was an exceptionally robust child, both mentally and physically. The foundation of his education began with his parents, and he received a generous measure of books, bibles, and benevolence. He matured into a gentleman of large physical stature with an even larger personality. Hubbard attended Mercer University in Georgia and earned a degree in literature in 1851. After Mercer, he attended lectures at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he acquainted himself with the ideologies of Thomas Jefferson. Hubbard enrolled at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts for the fall semester of 1852. In 1853, he earned a law degree. Hubbard practiced law in Tyler, Texas, with his partner Benjamin T. Selman. His affable charm complemented Selman’s coercive personality. As the years passed and Hubbard toured Texas, he developed a reputation as a sturdy leader with decisive views on politics. By 1861, he served his final months as a member of the Eighth Texas Legislature. Hubbard ran unsuccessfully to represent Texas in the Confederate Congress, but his spoiled attempt to offer services to the Fifth District allowed him the opportunity to pursue other endeavors. In January of 1862, Colonel Hubbard actively recruited men in East Texas and established the 22nd Texas Infantry, also known as Hubbard’s Regiment. His regiment served in the battles of Young’s Point, Fort DeRussy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins Ferry. After the war, Hubbard became the sixteenth governor of Texas and later served as the United States Minister to Japan. He died on July 12, 1901.