For many years after the house was gone, stately Lombardy Poplar trees continued to mark the former location of the old Cook house. Today those trees are also gone, and little remains to identify the site. Plans for the development of the Stone Brooke property require removal of soil from the knoll where the cemetery is located in order to fill a nearby building site along Hwy 129. With the annexation of the Stone Brooke Development Co. property by the City of Gray, an application for a permit to relocate this cemetery is now before the Gray City Council. The developers are petitioning to relocate the cemetery.
Plans call for the graves to be located and individually excavated using archaeological techniques.
The remains will then be re-interred in a new cemetery, to be located at a nearby site on the edge of the Stone Brooke development. A public hearing concerning the proposed relocation of this abandoned cemetery is scheduled to precede the next meeting of the Gray City Council, on the evening of Monday August 3. Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing. Anyone who wishes to express an opinion concerning the plan to relocate the abandoned cemetery will be afforded an opportunity to speak and have their views considered by the Council. The developers are particularly interested in contacting the descendants of Samuel Cook.