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Additional text submitted by Lyndon Beam 11/14/02:Myrtle Lee married my great grandfather, Lawrence Volney McLester. Lawrence's brother Ed (Theodore Roosevelt) started the McLester Cemetery in McLester Acres. Their father was, I believe, the first McLester in Rockport, a gentleman by the name of Charles Henry McLester. Charles had 10 children - several of them are buried in the private cemetery, but a few are out in the world, somewhere. I don't know all the details, but my mother (Linda Lauren McLester Griffin Beam) is in touch with Barbara McLester Hayden, who is the current caretaker: there was a family falling out at some point, which is the primary reason why all the McLesters aren't in the private cemetary. The secondary reason is that enlarging the cemetery would require a re-surveying of the land, which is not desireable.
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