I am a mamber of Nashville's Old City Cemetery Assn., because I descend from Anne Robetson Johnson Cockrill, who is buried there,... [along with the rest of the Robertsons and many others who founded Nashville]. I drove up there from Fla. for that organizational meeting last October, and it was well-worth it! It has been good, as we managed to get the City Parks Dept. to put up a decent fence along the back-side that abuts industrial zoning, ... and they did a lot of new landscaping AND allowed us to do our own, within some guidelines. I planted a white rose at Anne's DAR marker, and some periwinkles around a tree nearby ( new tree they put in to replace one knocked down and destroyed by tonado a year ago.) on the way from researching in Gallatin and doing more of the same in Franklin, on my home from the DC reunion. A lot of cemeteries are private, even when right next to a church ( Woodville Cemetery in Haywood Co TN is one, as is Shiloh in Henry Co.) and some are older than the church, and the pastors have no idea about who is caretaker of the cemetery. Sometimes it takes a little backroads rambling to find out just who IS in charge of them, if the librarian in the ounty seat is no help.... and of others on private property. I am tenacious, and my little station wagon and I go off into the fields and use my Cemetery Box ( boots, a machette, bug spray, camera... and a panoramic one...etc) and draw a map as close to scale as I can ON-SITE! Then, later, take a county map and superimpose it on it. I usually get county maps at funeral homes in the area. I happened to be in the area of the Woodville cemetery the weekend they had their cemetery board meeting, and attended and LEARNED A LOT! Many people think they are not still burying in these old ones... Mother was cremated because she erroneously thought so about Woodville ( where her family is 3 generations back and 4 of her brothers.) A lot of people just don't THINK, about who mows it and keeps it clear of trash. The Shiloh one , where we held the rededication for John Fryer (1801-1842)'s repaired marker after the DC reunion, has a lady named Charleen Carter in charge of it, that it took me literally years to find out about, and get the right permission to make the repairs and hold the service. They have a perpetual fund that pays for mowing and so far have not had to use capital for it. I will send a check, as I have a lot of very old graves thre, and they have been taken care of for many a year, before I got into genealogy! I just did not know t, before. I think a list of Danville Crossing cemeteries, by county, and who is the contact person, If there is an association already and how moneys are collected and disbursed for upkeep...as well as directions to each and a list of who is buried thre( which in the case of Henry Co, was a WPA project, and that much is done! wold be very useful. It might be a case of not knowing how bady we need something, because we didn't know enough to ask!! I know I have told cousins about the needs at Woodville, Shiloh and the others, and some have made donations . The Bond Cemetery in Williamson Co, is on a private stop of land, the old John Bond grant.. and they bush-hog it once a year. That is hardly the way to preserve stones!!!!! It It is a mass ( and mess) of blackberry vines and probably snakes! I found out last month, while up there, who is doing the "upkeep" e.i. bushhogging it... and want to write him and see if a herbicide and some hands-on labor won't get it clear and nt smash the stones any more than they lready are! Catherine