I just received this in my AL-Cem forum and thought the idea of God's Sacred Acre might be of interest to the group who were questioning the new ownership of a cemetery that was going to ruins under the new ownership. Nellie > I am interested in finding out if there is a local, county, state or federal agency that has the responsibility for abandoned cemeteries in Alabama. > > An association of my family members has found the 1800's family cemetery in central Alabama. The owner is willing to deed the land as "God's Sacred Acre" if we can find an agency that oversees such areas. Then our family > would be able to clean and preserve/restore the grave yard knowing that we would have perpetual access to the site. > > Could any of you advise our family on the steps we need to take and possible wording of the contract?

The name is interesting. . . . that's what the Moravians call their cemeteries. . . God's Acre. :-) Bob Carter Greensboro, NC (Chatham County and surrounding areas for CARTER, WELLS, GROOVER, BARBER, LIGHTSEY, COLLINS, MOBLEY, ZITTRAUER, POPPELL) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nellie Mace" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:06 PM Subject: [GA-CEM] Fw: [AL-CEM] Cemetery Preservation > I just received this in my AL-Cem forum and thought the idea of God's Sacred > Acre might be of interest to the group who were questioning the new > ownership of a cemetery that was going to ruins under the new ownership. > Nellie > > > I am interested in finding out if there is a local, county, state or > federal agency that has the responsibility for abandoned cemeteries in > Alabama. > > > > An association of my family members has found the 1800's family cemetery > in central Alabama. The owner is willing to deed the land as "God's Sacred > Acre" if we can find an agency that oversees such areas. Then our family > > would be able to clean and preserve/restore the grave yard knowing that we > would have perpetual access to the site. > > > > Could any of you advise our family on the steps we need to take and > possible wording of the contract? > > > > ==== 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 >