Notice to all MOORE researchers or families. I thought it was of interest to all of us. This is a terrible thing that people can do. -----Original Message----- From: Patti [mailto:4pattee@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:43 PM To: TNSEVIER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TN-Sevier] Destroying Moore Graveyard I received this from one of my other lists and find this appalling. This is the site for TN Government http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/main/government/index.html I urge everyone going genealogy to remit a response, if the elected officials in Nashville get a large response they cannot ignore it. That's why laws are made, let's get them enforced. If it can happen in Jackson Co., TN then it can happen in any other state. Maybe the next time it will be your family cemetery and who will help you. Patti >From: Reda Bilbrey <reda@twlakes.net> >To: JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [JCO] Distorying Moore Graveyard >Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:50:55 -0500 > >Need your help. The Moore Graveyard in the Big Bottom Community of >Jackson County TN. has been wiped out. No tombstones are left. Those >of you that bought a new tombstone for Denton Moore have lost it to the >land owner who has dug a basement in the cemetery. He has been charged >with a 39-17-311 desecration of a venerated object, meaning a >tombstone instead of a 39-17-312 obuse of a Corpse which is a Class E >felony for each grave. Three or four men have been called to testify >in behalf of this case Oct 18,2001 over this. > >Please call District Attorney , Tommy Tompson at his Hartsville, TN. >Office 615-374-2604 or his Lebanon, TN. Office 615-443-2863 and give >him all the what for you can think of. Thompson has charged this man >with such a small charge that it is merely a slap on the wrist. > >Then call your congressman or whoever changes the laws to help the poor >person. > >Please if you know the people who had bought the tombstone for Mr. >Denton Moore and had it set in this cemetery, please notify them that >it is gone. > Please someone that can help with this show up in court Oct 18, 2001 and >lend a hand. Tell Thompson you don't like what's being done. > >The Cemetery Laws need to be rewritten to protect the small family >cemeteries. Loop holes big enough to fall through. I don't have to tell >you this makes me very angry. Please will the Moore Family please step >in and put this case on record. > >Reda > > >==== JACKSON-CLAY-OVERTON-CO-TN Mailing List ==== >Please visit the Clay County TNGenWeb Site at >http://www.tngenweb.org/clay/. Your Hosts are Jane Hembree Crowley and >Charles Reeves ==== TNSEVIER Mailing List ==== Tennessee, Sevier County Resources & GenConnect Boards at RootsWeb Tennessee, Sevier County Resources: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TN/Sevier/ Tennessee, Sevier County GenConnect boards where you may post your queries and share your information or data in the areas where your research is focused: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TN/Sevier/#gc ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com