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Last summer I visited Star Fort area with the wife. I am descended from Sam and his wife Barbara Maria Flick through their daughter Elizabeth, who married my Jacob ZIMMERMAN. Like the discussion herein, I've wondered about the burial sites as well. In my chatting with the female ranger, who appeared amblivant to the issue, and did not seem to be even aware of it, if a dig is to be done, it has to be done thru the Park Service administration office in which they would request a grant of funds from the Congress ... I presume. Being someone with no political connections, this represents a mountain to me.
In my walking around, and locating the site of the supposedly jail house, I was rather touched as well due to the statement of Gibbs wherein he said he had observed the graves being dug; indicating they would have been close by.
As such, and needless to say, I was also touched ... and even teared up ... because I felt that I was near to hallowed ground; especially since I had just returned from the Spring Hill Redoubt area in Savannah where one of my other Rev. war participants, Frederick ZIMMERMAN, father of the above Jacob, was kia also in the year of 1779. His body too was not returned home; and likely is also buried in a mass grave near the battle site in Savannah; also hallowed ground to me and mine.
So if anyone has any connections to some funding, please advise and will throw what weight I can behind the cause.
Chuck Timmerman
PS Incidentally, when visiting the ancient ZIMMERMAN-TIMMERMAN private cemetery a few years ago, just outside Greenwood into Edgefield, I located the grave of Sam's wife, Barbara. Amongst the graves, some well marked, was a couple at the very beginning of the site, and one had a fieldstone marker; which looked to have been chipped at one time. In scouring around in the leaves and moss at the foot of this headstone, I located the chip; and in placing it in the void, it matched perfectly; and depicted the initials of 'BP" ... as in Barbara Polatty, her final married name.
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