Posted on 08/15/2025 8:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a shameful act of vandalism, the grave of Captain William Lytle, a Revolutionary War hero, was found destroyed in a Murfreesboro, Tennessee, graveyard, leading local patriots to set up a GoFundMe in support of the grave’s restoration, along with repairs to other surrounding headstones that were vandalized.
For background, on August 13, 2025, local press accounts confirmed that the grave of Captain Lytle, along with headstones belonging to members of his family, was found destroyed, with local members of the Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) responding by working to restore the site as quickly as possible to honor the war hero’s legacy.
Explaining the damage to WGNS, SAR Stones River president Robert Bolyard said of the graves, “They were either broken or knocked over. As you can see, there’s not a headstone that hasn’t been vandalized, someway, somehow.” He added, “And now, we’re just at the beginning stages of finishing up the police report and starting the restoration process.”
Continuing, Bolyard said that his organization “will be setting up a GoFundMe page so that people can help, because we’re getting a lot of people asking, ‘What can I do? What can I do?'” Moreover, WGNS confirmed that a $1,000 cash reward is available to anyone who has “information about the vandalism.”
Additionally, the Sons of the American Revolution launched their GoFundMe page for the grave’s restoration on August 13, 2025, setting their goal at $50,000. On the page, local SAR member Jim Sandman extended a “heartfelt request to support…efforts to restore, preserve, and maintain the Captain William Lytle Historical Cemetery, which was senselessly vandalized in June 2025.” Sandman added, “At least nine graves were damaged or toppled over.”
Providing further background on the hero whose grave was senselessly desecrated, Sandman wrote, “Captain William Lytle served in the American Revolution, and afterwards was granted land, some of which he donated for the founding of Murfreesboro, named after another soldier in the War for Independence, Col. Hardy Murfree.”
Continuing, Sandman explained that the desecrated site was a “Tennessee Historic Cemetery” that has been “the site of multiple community events and ceremonies held by local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and Sons of the American Revolution (SAR).”
Furthermore, on August 14, 2025, WSMV 4 confirmed that an investigation into the vandalism had commenced, with the Murfreesboro Police Department explaining that its property crime investigations division was on the case. In addition, Robert Bolyard told WSMV 4, “We are determined to make it right, get it right,” adding, “Be ready to celebrate his life, his accomplishments, and everything that all our patriots did.” Likewise, SAR member Mark Young said that the restoration of the headstones would be like completing a “700-pound puzzle.”
Watch coverage of the destruction to the graves:
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
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Another demonstration of the complete futility of the Left. These are the things you do when you are losing badly with no hope of turning it around.
He fought in the Revolution and then settled in Tennessee after it was over. Consider Davey Crockett, who was born in Tennessee, served as a representative in Washington DC, then moved to Texas, where he fought at the Alamo.
“Because cemeteries are isolated, it’s hard to stop this.”
Motion-sensing/activated trail cameras might help to ID the lowlifes who do this destruction.
You’d be surprised
I’ve done it
8 foot granite cross
Two descriptive 2x3 foot stones for my parents
20,000 plus
15 years ago
Btw in the same town as this but in the antebellum cemetery on highland ave
I think this is the Lytle cemetery itself
White Alabama marble looks great but it doesn’t hold up
FWIW
Scum
Bags
This is the type of crap Islam does in the lands they invade/infiltrate
Heads up America
Revolutionary war
Lots of officers got land grants here
And they fought the hell out of the very vicious Indians
A history not taught now
Revolutionary War, Civil War... It's all the same if you are a yahoo completely ignorant of history.
No States were involved in the Revolutionary War. Heh heh. To be technical. Always trying to be of help.
Yes, Americans were on the move back then.
Andrew Jackson was born in South (or North) Carolina, but he became a Tennesseean. James K. Polk was a North Carolinian who moved to Tennessee. Thomas Hart Benton was another Tarheel who moved to Tennessee and then to Missouri where he was elected to the Senate.
Ping
Set up some deer cameras in the nooks and crannies around the graveyards...record them, identify them, catch them...educate them regarding their severe error in judgement in the most impactful way possible...keep educating them until they throughly understand their mistake.
Pssst, read the article, all will be revealed w/o recourse to the Magic Eight Ball!
You’re correct, and also it is the case that Tennessee was not a state at all until right around the formation of actual states.
In fact, the area was technically controlled by North Carolina, but Tennessee wasn’t even part of the Continental Congress.
The Overmountain men were settlers in the area which would be called the State of Tennessee.
There was some fighting in what is now eastern Tennessee in the Revolutionary War (I think my Revolutionary ancestor may have been involved in the campaign). But many North Carolina soldiers were given land grants in what is now Tennessee and settled there after the war.
The scout leader for my son’s troop (who worked the troop until his mid 90s) lived on land that was part of a land grant to his family. The troop met there and it was a boy’s paradise
Much of the town of Franklin is from that land grant.
Yes, Americans were on the move back then.
Andrew Jackson was born in South (or North) Carolina, but he became a Tennesseean. James K. Polk was a North Carolinian who moved to Tennessee. Thomas Hart Benton was another Tarheel who moved to Tennessee and then to Missouri where he was elected to the Senate.
I am the first person outside the family to own a farm that was part of a Rev. war grant.
Feral is the only word for the likes of the creatures that did it.
Good old ass kicking is in need for a lesson learned.
When we laid Mom to rest it was the cemetery of the church that she attended as a child; about a mile from her North Carolina childhood home. The family had not been allowed to bury anyone in the old family cemetery for about 100 years (still private property). The church cemetery is probably 50% family. Yes, southerners consider 4th cousins family. Mom is laid to rest next to her parents and baby sister who died in infancy. I think Mom's headstone is the largest there as to my brothers and I she had the kindest and wisest heart God ever handed out.
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