In a message dated 7/10/2006 9:00:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: X-Message: #9 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:24:58 -0500 From: "Chuck & Cindy Leonard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILMacoupin] Burials/ Civil War or own farm land Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When a local mowing service, hired to mow our City Cemetery (the oldest one in Staunton), came to the city council and wanted to take all the broken tombstones and dispose of them, our society members gathered and sent a letter to the city council objecting to this and to make a long story short, the State Historical Preservation Association told us to contact them immediately if we saw any indications of stones being removed and they would send State Police to stop the removal. It didn't come to that, but as usual, yours truly wound up on the reorganized City Cemetery Association and the broken stones were repaired; my children walked the creek bed in search of stones that may have been thrown down there but that search proved to be cement borders that were removed from around grave plots. My husband made a "probe" for me to use in the oldest section and we found numerous original stones that had been broken over the years and covered by dirt. They were repaired and re-set (we kept them close to the original spot they were found) - the original plot listing of burials was long gone and believe me, our group did some hard searching. Of course, if anyone finds the records, it would be great to have them..... Gosh, thank you Cindy, for doing all that. I think I may have some ancestors in that graveyard. I certainly appreciate all the trouble you took with it. Carol Hunter Southwick