Marita, Did you photograph the Hodges Cemetery when you visited it? If so, could save someone else a trip... Thanks. Carolynn ----- Original Message ----- From: <ilmacoup-request@rootsweb.com> To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:00 AM Subject: ILMACOUP Digest, Vol 4, Issue 194 > > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Etter Cemetery S. Palmyra Twp (Marita Gladson) > 2. Re: Etter Cemetery S. Palmyra Twp (Rick) > 3. WILLIAM and WALLS (G Frazier) > 4. Using Goats to Clear a Cemetery (Debbi Geer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:11:15 -0800 > From: Marita Gladson <maritag@earthlink.net> > Subject: [ILMACOUP] Etter Cemetery S. Palmyra Twp > To: ilmacoup@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <F8D8AF6F-279C-40A6-987F-8A85B45CA1AD@earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Has any ever tried to photograph the tombstones at Etter Cemetery S. > Palmyra Twp or the Hodges Cemetery in So . Palmyra? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:39:13 -0600 > From: "Rick" <hmdoty@madisontelco.com> > Subject: Re: [ILMACOUP] Etter Cemetery S. Palmyra Twp > To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <69E8AEA1580E4AF28BEEE706BFD8C0A3@RickPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Etter was done a few years ago > http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/cemetery/etter.html I haven't been to > Hodges yet if nobody else gets it maybe I can try this coming year. > Rick > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marita Gladson" <maritag@earthlink.net> > To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 3:11 PM > Subject: [ILMACOUP] Etter Cemetery S. Palmyra Twp > > >> Has any ever tried to photograph the tombstones at Etter Cemetery S. >> Palmyra Twp or the Hodges Cemetery in So . Palmyra? >> >> >> Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at >> http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:41:05 -0500 > From: G Frazier <macoupincounty@earthlink.net> > Subject: [ILMACOUP] WILLIAM and WALLS > To: ILMACOUP@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <6.0.0.14.1.20091220203646.01d488f8@pop.earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Can anyone help George? > Gloria > >>Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:01:27 -0800 (PST) >>From: GEORGE WILLIAMS <gfpaw2@sbcglobal.net> >>Subject: Cemetery recors etc. >>To: macoupincounty@earthlink.net >>Cc: George Williams <gfpaw2@sbcglobal.net> >> >> >>Do you have anyone & what would the cost be for someone to research for >>records having to do with Williams L Williams b;11-28-1849 d; may 15, >>1897, m; 1-28-68 to Temperance Walls b 11-29-1850 d; feb 16,1926. I am >>looking for death, cemetary record, obits.,or family history of the >>Williams. I have the 50,60,70 of his parents, William and Dianna (do not >>have maiden name)Williams, father and mother of William L Williams. They >>were in North Otter in 1880, in Macoupin County, 73 yrs old, born in Tenn. >>about 1807. George F Williams ph. 785 272 7768. 1033 SW Crest Dr. Topeka >>Ks. 66604. >>Thank you for any help possible. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Debbi Geer <dgirth@yahoo.com> > Subject: [ILMACOUP] Using Goats to Clear a Cemetery > To: Macoupin Co IL <ilmacoup-L@rootsweb.com>, Madison Co IL > <ilmadiso-L@rootsweb.com>, Dunklin Co MO <modunkli-L@rootsweb.com>, > Jersey Co IL <iljersey-L@rootsweb.com>, Greene Co IL > <ilgreene-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <882365.56645.qm@web111403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Below my sign-off is a posting from the Boone surname mail list and > thought I would share with some other mail lists I belong in case someone > is trying to figure out a way to clean up an unmaintained cemetery and > don't want to damage any unseen gravestones.? It may sound stupid but > consider the gravestones won't be damaged as machines or implements might > do when you have no idea what's under the brush or tall grasses.? A > suggestion by the original submitter was to put the goats on a chain when > there is no fence around the cemetery. > > Debbi Geer > > > Using Goats to Clear a Cemetery > > Four sturdy goats are doing their part to uncover up to 30 grave sites at > the? Ballard Family Cemetery in Henderson County, North Carolina. The > brambles and? underbrush were so thick it was hard to see anything, much > less walk around. The? free labor is supplied by goats on loan from > Henderson County Magistrate Sandra? Laughter. > > It's hard to tell what's here until we clean it out," says Toby Linville, > the? county staff member for the Henderson County Cemetery Advisory > Committee. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ILMACOUP list administrator, send an email to > ILMACOUP-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ILMACOUP mailing list, send an email to > ILMACOUP@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ILMACOUP Digest, Vol 4, Issue 194 > ****************************************