Funding For Veterans Cemetery Back In Budget Proposal

Some $600,000 in state funding to acquire land for an Upper Cumberland Veterans Cemetery has been returned to the state’s proposed budget.

Senator Paul Bailey worked with Senator Paul Yager to include the money in the Department of Veterans Services budget for 2018-2019.

The Tennessee Department of Veterans Services established a committee to begin searching for sites for the cemetery in 2013. It would be the sixth veterans cemetery in the state. Work on the fifth being built just outside Jackson continues.

Local funds have already been raised to assist with the project. The state fiscal year begins in July.