Virginia's rural Mathews County is poised to deed a small piece of the public courthouse green to a private group to protect a Confederate statue forever.
Last year, a Mathews County referendum on whether to remove its statue found more than 80 percent of voters in favor of leaving it in place. Despite that show of support, Confederate heritage groups and the four White members of the five-member board of supervisors declared that the monument was under siege by changing public attitudes.
County supervisors said at that time that they would not deed the monument to a Confederate heritage group. Chapters of the SCV and the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument in 1912, but those chapters have long since gone defunct. “I don’t really understand everything that just happened here,” county resident Sharon Dequaine told the panel. “If this is a decision to be made it should be put on a referendum for all citizens to agree or disagree. It is, after all, our common property.”The draft deed prepared by county officials would convey the property for $10 to a group called Mathews War Memorial Preservation Inc. That group was registered with the State Corporation Commission in mid-September by David M.
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