--part1_3c.9b92bed.27faf780_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_3c.9b92bed.27faf780_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:13:26 -0500 Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:13:00 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f333B9R01441; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:11:09 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:11:09 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Mon Apr 2 20:11:08 2001 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:04:34 -0700 From: "The Bethke's" <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; U; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: [email protected] Subject: - Milwaukee Cemetery To Be Desecrated Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/16 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2001 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. - Milwaukee Cemetery To Be Desecrated This week I received an e-mail from Evelyn Oliveras that expressed concerns about the plans of the Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Board of Supervisors. They reportedly plan to dig up all the graves at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm cemetery, place all the remains in one box and then bury those remains someplace else. The Milwaukee County Poor Farm began operation in November of 1852 with 24 people housed in a remodeled farmhouse. It remained in operation until the early twentieth century with additional buildings and a hospital constructed as the indigent population grew. You can find more information about the Poor Farm at "Jen's Photo Scrapbook Of the Milwaukee County Poorhouse" at: http://www.poorhousestory.com/WISC_PhotoScrapbook.htm Here is the message from Evelyn Oliveras: I need the help of each one of you who feels as strongly as I do about cemetery desecration. We have a county cemetery called Potter's field or sometimes referred to as Milwaukee County Poor Farm which is about to be desecrated by the county Board of Supervisors. They say they will dig up all the remains, place them in one box and move them to another location. These poor people were already buried on top of each other originally, and the whole thing is very sad to those of us who care. I am in the process of transcribing the burial registers to post on the web, but it is a long difficult process with different handwriting, etc. I have a full time jo