Hi, David! I don't know if this will help, but the DeKalb Historical Society gave me a lead you might be able to follow with regards to destroyed/vandalized cemeteries. I was told there is the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 that requires all states to have a historic officer. The National Register Of Historic Places was started as a result of this. At any rate, I do know it is a federal felony to vandalize/destroy a cemetery. The website is: http://www2.cr.nps.gov/laws/NHPA1966.htm Hopefully, this will help. Connie > > From: "David S. Payne" <otime1@yahoo.com> > Date: 2003/10/23 Thu AM 08:56:27 EDT > To: FOWLER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [FOWLER] Fowler Cemeterys > > Cousins, > A while back there was a lawsuit going on about a Fowler cemetery that was destroyed I believe in Greenville Co. SC. Or at least in the same general area of SC. > I am trying to find about it and who was working on it. Do you know about who it was and some of the details. Maybe even the name of the atty? > Would the folks contact me personally? > There seems to be many Cemeterys here in SC that is getting disturbed or distroyed and seems no one will do anything about it. > See the letter from Mary below. > > > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:39:51 -0300 > > From: MaryClyde mrmungo@InfoAve.Net > > To: SCPICKEN-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [SCPICKENS] Re: Cemeterys > > > Hi David, > > If you can find that law please let us know. I have three generations of > > ancestors buried in the Hodges Family cemetery, just outside Hodges, SC, > > and the tombstones are being destroyed by people who attend a go-cart > > track... that was built right beside the cemetery. I've written to > > everybody who has any authority, from the governor of SC down to the > > Sheriff of Greenwood County, about this and can get nothing done. I > > offered to buy the cemetery, put up a fence, etc. and the owner of the > > property refused. One of the tombstones has been broken into twelve pieces > > and thrown about!!! If there's a law that says that this little piece of > > property belongs to the descendants... why can't we go in there and put up > > a fence and repair the damage that has been done? I sincerely hope that > > you are right, but I've never seen anything like that. Please let me know > > what you find... > > Mary Clyde > > > > David S. Payne, 1614 Chapman Rd., Anderson, SC, 29621 otime1@yahoo.com : My website: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=otime : Searching for surnames mostly in Upstate SC/GA/NC: ADDISON, ALLISON, ARENDALL, CANADY, CORBIN, COLEMAN, CRAIG, DEAN, FOWLER, HALEY, GORDON, HENSON, JAMES, McMILLIAN, McPHERSON, MOODY, PARKER, PATTERSON, PAYNE, POINDEXTER, POOLE, REDWINE, REID, SWANN, WEST, WHITMIRE > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > > > ============================== > 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 > >