how awful !!!!!!!!! I owned a farm once that had a cemetery on it by alabama law youy have to give right away to it but I let the people put up a fences and clean the graves they had sears put up the fences Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [GA-CEM] cemetery statute > Susan, > That was interesting. Don't know how it applies here in AL, but wish I had > known some years ago when we learned a large family plantation once in the > family contained a family cemetery. Some of the ancestors were born in the > late 1700s and buried on these early 1800 Blount Co., AL grounds. The new > owners of the portion of the farm on which the cemetery stood, had had it > plowed under, gravestones, too, except for one or two. They stood at a > distance, leaning against a tree. It was then a pasture. We were afraid to > enter the field, because of a couple of mean looking bulls. No one was at > home when we knocked on the owner's door. We never went back. If I get an > opportunity to go back, I will check our laws first and be more prepared. > Thanks for the info. > Betty in Birmingham > > > ==== GA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > The GA-CEMETERY Volunteer and Cemetery Inventory site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gacemete/ > To search the Archives of this list http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl type in GA-CEMETERIES > > ============================== > 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 > >