What a travesty!! I cannot even imagine that such a thing occurs. If the place had been loaded with artifacts, the powers that be would have been on them like white on rice!!!! Sarah -----Original Message----- From: A. R. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 22, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [INMADISO-L] Old Cemetery >This may be more common place than you think. I just found that some of my >husband's ancestors were buried in the Old Harmony Cemetery near Atoka, >Oklahoma. The state decided to put an expressway through there in the >1970's. They bulldozed the headstones and discarded them and put it right >over the cemetery without moving the bodies. > >A.R. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:36 PM >Subject: [INMADISO-L] Old Cemetery > > >> This is a concern of many and growing. I did read sometime ago where an >> Amish family purchased and farm in Northern IN and they PLOWED up a family >> burial plot. I hope this is not the norm? >> >> Subj: [NCROOTS] Old Cemetery >> Date: 1/3/00 12:08:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time >> From: [email protected] (James Haynes) >> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> >> To: [email protected] >> >> From: James Haynes <[email protected]> >> >> Neal: >> >> Before you have your hearing has anyone from the county investigated to >see if >> this land owner is in violation the following criminal code. >> >> JIMH: >> >> PS: As you can see I am having a hard time letting go of this. I was >having >> somewhat of a problem up in Rutherford County with a land owner who died. >The >> land was sold to a very young couple who told us we could enter any time >we >> desired. Clean, replace, stones, build a fence around the site and do just >> about any thing to preserve the historical site. My GGGGrand Parents are >> there >> along with a son who died in the civil war and was brought back from VA. >to be >> buried on the home place. My mother always said everyone deserved a >marked >> resting place. She spent 10 years after retiring collecting money from >her >> kin >> to place markers on all unmarked ancestors grave sites. >> >> G.S. 14-148 and G.S. 14-149 outline the penalties for defacing and >desecrating >> grave sites and for plowing over or covering up graves: Violation is a >> misdemeanor and a Class I felony respectively. The fine is up to $500, and >> imprisonment is between sixty days and a year. Both penalties may result. >> > >