{"id":12,"date":"2020-10-28T19:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucsvca.webstervillemedia.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:31:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper Cumberland State Veterans Association (UCSVCA)\u00a0was formed in April 2013 to assist the State of Tennessee in\u00a0establishing a Veterans Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland to offer a pristine final resting place for Tennessee Veterans and their families as well as a peaceful place of honor to grieve and reflect.\u00a0 The UCSVCA\u00a0is composed of veterans representatives from\u00a0the fourteen counties of the Upper Cumberland; Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Van Buren, Warren and White.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Mission<\/h1>\n<p>Utilize a highly enthusiastic and energetic team of volunteers to raise awareness and influence the citizens of the Upper Cumberland to join together to promote and raise funds for the initiative of establishing a State Veterans Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland Region.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Leadership of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery Association<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Chairman\u00a0<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Donna Fare<br \/>\n<strong>Co-Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0 Shawn Burnelle<br \/>\n<strong>Secretary\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Shawn Burnelle (Acting Secretary)<br \/>\n<strong>Treasurer \u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Chuck Mateyka<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Future Home of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road-1536x877.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tenn-property-viewer.Country-Club-Road.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future home of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery &#8211; 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/five-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/five-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/five-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/five-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/five.jpg 1243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future Home of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery &#8211; 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/four-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/four-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/four-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/four.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future Home of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery &#8211; 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This property in White County, TN on Country Club Road has been purchased to be the future home of the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper Cumberland State Veterans Association (UCSVCA)\u00a0was formed in April 2013 to assist the State of Tennessee in\u00a0establishing a Veterans Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland to offer a pristine final resting place for Tennessee Veterans and their families as well as a peaceful place of honor to grieve and reflect.\u00a0 The UCSVCA\u00a0is composed of veterans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucsvca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}