Thought some of you doing Ventura research might like to follow some of these emails. Sue Silver, State Coordinator California Saving Grave ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Haddad" <haddad1940@yahoo.com> To: <CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Ventura, CA, cemetery desecrated to turn into a park > > A very nice lady from RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) who did a cemetery lookup for me in Ventura Co., CA, wrote me this: Cemetery Park is a cemetery in Ventura, CA, that was desecrated by the city to turn it into a park. > > "Cemetery Park is just that. So sad. The City of Ventura took all the headstones and dumped them in a canyon in back of town. This was done 4 or 5 years ago. I had not read anything about it in our local paper till after the fact. > > "Our newspaper said, the city tried to contact families of those buried there. > > "I have lived here nearly all my life, (my Mom was born in Ojai) and I use to walk that cemetery as a kid (we all did) it was so interesting to read the headstones. To me it is a sad looking place now. > > "The listing for who is buried there I got from our City Clerk. The listing was done in the early 1940's and she had it on a floppy and was kind enough to share it with me. > Our city council should be ashamed of themselves." > > > "Ojai City Hall 805-646-5581 > 401 S. Ventura, Ojai CA > 93023 > > Hallie > > Does anyone on our list live near Ventura that would be interested in investigating this? > > Katheryn Maddox Haddad > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > > > ==== CEMETERY Mailing List ==== > If you are on DIGEST mail mode and wish to unsubscribe from the list, > send a message to Cemetery-D-request@rootsweb.com > In the body of the message type: UNSUBSCRIBE > These directions are for DIGEST MODE mail ONLY > NOT REGULAR MODE > Roots Web's computer will send you a message stating YOU ARE NOT ON > THE LIST if you try unsubbing yourself from the REGULAR mode mail when > you are actually on digest. THIS IS A COMPUTER GENERATED MESSAGE. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >