Here is more on the cemetery the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has petitioned to relocate. Sue Silver El Dorado County, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <adyer@insightbb.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 8:05 PM Subject: [INPCRP] New Jersey cemetery needs our help > This came through on another list and I thought this list might be > interested in seeing it. To make room for the New Jersey turnpike, there > are plans to disinter over 3,500 burials in a Potter's field cemetery and > rebury them in a mass grave. There is an online petition to help prevent > this from happening. > > Here is the message: > > To Whom it May Concern; > > I am the descendant of a person interred at the Hudson County Burial > Grounds located in Secaucus, New Jersey. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority > wants to move all 3,500 remains into a common grave. I do not believe the > public has been notified of this topic enough. I have started a petition to > help show support of the public being against this matter. Our online > petition as well as our paper petition has been circulating for just two > days now and has been getting tremendous response. I have sent a letter to > the judge in charge of this case and await his reply. I want the right to > speak to the judge about this case in court. I want the public to be well > informed of this matter. I want your help in spreading the news of this > situation. > > Our online petition site. > http://www.petitiononline.com/5final/petition.html > > Our online site with links to all the stories > http://www.graveinfo.com > http://www.graveinfo.8m.com/ > > Sincerely, > Bill T Hastings > Petition_5@hotmail.com > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > "Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have." > Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) > >