This is Al Metts, I forward this message from William Spurlock. It is encouraging. Again, please watch his home page URL http://www.savinggraves.com --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "William Spurlock" <[email protected]> To: "Albert C Metts, Jr." <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:10:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Saving Graves URL Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Hello, If I had not had computer problems all day I would have had something up much faster. What I have up currently is only a rough start, in fact I'm currently working on as I speak. Just stopped in to look as some of your previous email to get some additional information and saw your email had just come in. I've also been in touch with several others around the country that are quite active and well known in cemetery preservation and have been getting a good deal of support from them. I wish that I could tell you that this is just a random problem, but it's not. Thing such this take place on a daily basis world wide. But your case is without question one of the worst that I've seen so far. Clearly the state law is on your side here as I indicated prior, but the problem (as it is in so many of these cases) is not the lack of a law, but rather the enforcement of it. This comes from several things, most often it's confusion between various law enforcement agencies as to who has the jurisdiction and responsibility. Atlanta has changed a great deal in the 10 years that we have been here. It's a shame really as I miss the old Atlanta. William (Bill) Spurlock Saving Graves http://www.savinggraves.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert C Metts, Jr." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:46 PM Subject: Saving Graves URL > Dear Mr. Spurlock, > > I am amazed at your reaction and rapid development > of the outstanding presentation on your URL! Let me > thank you for all of the researchers that have been involved > trying to get justice for our deceased ancestors. > > Of course, you know that I have been trying to send whatever > I can find that might help you. Maybe I have sent too much! > I wish we could get Governor Hodges and other officials to > read what you have written. > > You live in Atlanta. My grandmother, Elizabeth Porter Pillow > Oliver lived in Atlanta when I was a child. Her son, my uncle > William Oliver, lived there for all of his life. At about age 10, > my parents would send me by Greyhound bus, alone, from > Mississippi to Atlanta to spend long periods with my grandmother. > She would put me on a street car to ride out to the end of the > line and back to the starting point where she would be waiting. > The next day, I would ride a different street car. I saw a lot > of Atlanta, Georgia. My Grandfather, John Madison Oliver, was > not alive, then. Earlier, he had owned the first telephone company > in Georgia. He and my grandmother had lived in Gainsville. > > I am very glad that you have a strong interest in the Hodges > cemetery. > > Al Metts >