Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores AL on September 16th as a category 2 storm. It moved north and blasted the Montgomery area later that day. Thursday morning the 17th a member of SCV Camp 1524 noted that a large oak had fallen at Indian Hill cemetery sometime the previous day or overnight due to the high winds and rain in Prattville. The Dragoons put out a notice to members and friends and mobilized a crew to the cemetery on Saturday to start cleanup. The oak was estimated to be at least 30 inches in diameter and represented a huge project to remove the limbs and clean up. When it fell it fortunately just missed the white PVC fence which fronts the cemetery along County Highway 86 just west of Prattville. Laborers that day included 1st Lt Harold Grooms, Quartermaster Bill Myrick, Color Sgt John Dennis, compatriot Bill Branch and coming in from Selma, Butch Godwin. The men put in hours at the cemetery delimbing and cutting up some of that main trunk leaving that and the stump and debris to burn at a future workday. The following week Butch and Charlie Kee returned and finished the massive job of cutting and removing the main trunk. A large pile of good firewood was also left there that can perhaps be sold or donated. The care of this historic cemetery is part of the community service work of Camp 1524 and part of the SCV's Guardian Program.
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