Cemetery: Pennock Island
Other:
Sign: Yes
Street:
City: Saxman 1/4 mile across the channel
Township:
County:
State: Alaska
Nation: USA
Zip: 99901
Status: Active
Size: Medium
Directions: accessible by boat only, 1/4 mile across Tongass Narrows
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: Yes
Features: large evergreens surround a cleared area, shell path from water
Property: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: Natural
Gate: None
Established: unknown
Gravestones: 100 or more
Oldest: early 1600
Newest: 2000
Removed: No
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Unsure
Availability: death certificate State of Alaska
Landscaping: Yes
Paths: Yes
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: Unsure
Brickwork: Unsure
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture: Yes
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Unsure
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Yes
Slate: Unsure
Others: Yes
Wood: Unsure
Materials: Yes
Architectural: Yes
Angels: Yes
Draperies: Yes
Fraternal: No
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Yes
Photos: Unsure
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Yes
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: No
Report: Yes
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover:
Moss: Yes
Vines:
Drainage: Problem-Seasonal
Problem1:
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Residential
Change: Larger
Reason: Roads
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: not applicable

Surnames:

Major

Other_Information:

Grave yard is in three sections on the whole of Pennock Island. The center is the oldest part. The graveyard
is a Native cemetary, with residents of the Indian village of Saxman being buried there for several generation.
I believe a thorough documentation of the graves is necessary and it needs to be placed on the list of
Alaskan Native cemetary. It also needs to be saved from the government of Ketchikan, determined to place
a bridge across Pennock Island to another island. To date, Saxman has not commented on this most
probable desecration of their ancestors graves.

Support:

Harvey Shields, Council Saxman

Joe Williams II, Sara Abbott, elder

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Name: Cindy Wagner
Email: o_oligan@hotmail.com
Date: 4-28-03