hello gang , another war to fight ! marvindellinger@semo.net thank you ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Jones" <jyrene@hotmail.com> To: <CHRISTIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: Fwd: [JCO] Destorying Moore Graveyard > Please read the following message. Please forward to anyone you may know > who may be able to help. > > Scott > > If nobody tends to the family tree the roots will wither. > > >From: Reda Bilbrey <reda@twlakes.net> > >To: JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [JCO] Distorying Moore Graveyard > >Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:50:55 -0500 > > > >Need your help. The Moore Graveyard in the Big Bottom Community of Jackson > >County TN. has been wiped out. No tombstones are left. Those of you that > >bought a new tombstone for Denton Moore have lost it to the land owner who > >has dug a basement in the cemetery. He has been charged with a 39-17-311 > >desecration of a venerated object, meaning a tombstone > >instead of a 39-17-312 obuse of a Corpse which is a Class E felony for each > >grave. Three or four men have been called to testify in behalf of this > >case Oct 18,2001 over this. > > > >Please call District Attorney , Tommy Tompson at his Hartsville, TN. Office > >615-374-2604 or his Lebanon, TN. Office 615-443-2863 and give him all the > >what for you can think of. Thompson has charged this man with such a small > >charge that it is merely a slap on the wrist. > > > >Then call your congressman or whoever changes the laws to help the poor > >person. > > > >Please if you know the people who had bought the tombstone for Mr. Denton > >Moore and had it set in this cemetery, please notify them that it is gone. > > Please someone that can help with this show up in court Oct 18, 2001 and > >lend a hand. Tell Thompson you don't like what's being done. > > > >The Cemetery Laws need to be rewritten to protect the small family > >cemeteries. Loop holes big enough to fall through. I don't have to tell > >you this makes me very angry. Please will the Moore Family please step in > >and put this case on record. > > > >Reda > > > > > >==== JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN Mailing List ==== > >Please visit the Clay County TNGenWeb Site at > >http://www.tngenweb.org/clay/. > >Your Hosts are Jane Hembree Crowley and Charles Reeves. > > > >============================== > >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > >