Mike, I too traveled from Texas to Moore's Hill Cemetery this month and had not seen it before. It was the most amazing cemetery I have ever seen!!! The bulldozer was parked there and the clearing was being done, we took the NEWLY graded road up the steep hill to the cemetery and I tell you the truth, we were in a full size van and we hung off the new road on the side of the hill and it was an experience....we just drove on back down and didn't get out to view the gravesites. This cemetery reminds me of Indian Mounds I have worked on in my Archelogy work here in the Dallas area. I agree with you, and wish I had seen it in it's original setting. The old "Hugh Johnson" or Samuel Johnson line also Balch mother, originally owned a good part of this land in the area and still do today. My ancestor also had land that ran almost up to the cemetery on the SE all the way back across the highway. Which he patented in 1841...Radford Greenwood. This is all OLD PROSPERITY...right?! Faye ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Earls <mikeearls@ev1.net> To: <ARYELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:52 PM Subject: [ARYELL-L] Moore's Hill Cemetery > Moore's Hill Cemetery (located off CR52 between Ard and Dardanelle), > besides being important to me personally, is special, due in no small > part to its beautiful setting atop its namesake, which is elevated a > couple of hundred feet above the surrounding countryside. > > Unfortunately, it's remote location was favored by teenagers who drank, > partied, and worst of all, committed vandalism. Several years ago there > was major damage, a great deal of it irreparable, because of vandals. > > However, what I saw yesterday while visiting, upsets me as much as the > vandalism. All of the surrounding farmland is being cleared and leveled > by bulldozer. The sides of the Hill itself, up to where the cemetery > begins, have been cleared. The dozer even dug away a sizable chunk of > the Hill along CR52, as it appears they intend to widen the road. > > Not living in the area, I don't know what transpired as far as obtaining > permission to do this. And yes, I do believe in individual rights. But > to me, this is a travesty of all things decent and a disaster to those > who appreciated the beautiful, secluded cemetery. > > I don't know who is doing the work. If anyone else feels as I do, > perhaps we could find out and deluge them with letters of concern about > the sanctity of the cemetery. > > Mike Earls > Baytown, Texas > > > ==== ARYELL Mailing List ==== > Visit the Yell county Genealogical Homepage > http://bethg.shutdown,com/yell/ >