Message: 8 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:56:54 -0800 (PST) From: LARRY HOWSEN <neswoh@yahoo.com> Subject: [ARBRADLE] Davis Cemetery To: ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <480881.98946.qm@web81303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is for your infomation. Davis Cemetery on the road to Godfrey plane is no longer there. They have clear cut the land and all signs of the cemetery or marker are gone... I could not find anything. Larry ******************************** *This is very sad and it is also against the law. It might have been done before the law was passed. Members of my family bought a new footstone to place on my grandfather's unmarked grave in a Howard Co cemetery that had been neglected and grown up. We all carried loppers and saws and tools to clear and clean and lay the marker. When we drove up to the cemetery, a man was on a dozer and had already dozed over some graves and was just about to clear the ground. I walked up and told him what we had come to do and he left immediately. He had been hired by the man who owned the land. It just happened that some other people from out of state drove up while we were there who had people buried there. Every one of us contacted the County Judge (sending a copy of the law and reminding him that it was his duty to protect the cemetery and see that it was accessable. We were hoping he would use prison labor and clean the whole cemetery since there were quite a few stones left and also more unmarked graves that people knew of. So far he has not done that.* *If we had not driven up when we did. That cemetery would have been wiped out and the old, old stones would have been piled in a heap and probably buried. We sort of felt that we were led there at the right moment.* **