The Next Meeting – is scheduled for Friday, 7 March 2025 at 10:00 AM at the Veterans Memorial Building, Meeting Hall, 90 E. Spring St., in Cookeville, TN.
The TDVS’ grant application for construction of our new cemetery has been updated and submitted to the NCA. The NCA ranked our grant 39th this year in the nation.
The UCSVCA has temporarily suspended fund raising efforts as we refine our strategy with the TDVS, Federal representatives and other partners to help convince the NCA to fund our needed cemetery construction and to push our project forward or ask the state to move to fund the cemetery construction without NCA funds. We urge all our supporters to correspond with their state and federal representatives and let them know of the great need for a veteran’s cemetery in Middle Tennessee.
The Tennessee Governor’s Office and key legislators have secured $750,000 in the 2019-2020 State Budget to support the architecture and engineering costs associated our federal NCA Grant to build a state veterans cemetery in the Upper Cumberland. This is in addition to $600,000 used to purchase of the property for the state veteran’s cemetery.
The UCSVCA would like to thank the citizens of the Upper Cumberland for their numerous generous donations to the cemetery project. Also, thanks to the county governments of Clay, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Putnam, Smith, and White counties for fulfilling their pledges to donate $10 per veteran to the UCSVCA for the purchase of land and improvements for a state veterans cemetery in the Upper Cumberland and to Warren County for their continued donations to the UCSVCA.
The UCSVCA is an approved 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
UCSVCA Officers and Members continue to brief community leaders and organizations and provide interviews to spread the word on the need for a Veterans Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland and the work the UCSVCA is doing.
Special Thanks:
Thanks to the Carthage Walmart for their recent donation of $2,500. Walmart stores in the Upper Cumberland (Cookeville, Crossville and Lafayette, TN) have contributed another $3000 to the UCSVCA.
Thanks to Spectrum for donating $2,500 to the UCSVCA.
Thanks to DAV Chapter 117 for a generous donation.
Thanks to American Legion Post 238 for a generous donation.
