_____ From: unicorn1945 [mailto:unicorn1945@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:47 PM To: Bob Alloway Subject: Re: CEMETERY DESTRUCTION Bob, I'll let you take a look for yourself. There are five or six pages of photos of the destruction. http://www.rootsweb.com/~indelawa/sharp-cem-vandalized.html As I understand it, the destruction started several years ago with kids partying in the cemetery and has continued on a fairly regular basis. I called the twp trustee and got one msg back on my answering machine. I have called twice since and got no return calls. I haven't been to the courthouse yet to see who is paying taxes on the property but, if my source of information is correct, even a private owner has certain laws he must meet and this one violates at least a few. Sharp Cemetery is one of the oldest in the county and is a pioneer cemetery. Thank you, Shirley Pearson ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Alloway <mailto:ralloway@earthlink.net> To: 'unicorn1945' <mailto:unicorn1945@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:10 PM Subject: CEMETERY DESTRUCTION Call the trustees office in your township and see if they own it. If it is on private ground you maybe able to go to courthouse in Muncie and have assessor look it up. Is it being vandalized or farmed over? Jeannie can advise you what action she can take. In some cases, where the land owner is doing the destruction, she can get him to stop. Let me know what you find out.. What is the location of the cemetery, and the name.. She maybe out of her office on Friday`s..Bob _____

To my best knowledge the Sharp Cemetery is under the control of Salem Township Trustee. Tommy Crawford is the Salem Township Trustee located in Delaware County. The Pioneer Cemetery Preservation Committee of the Delaware County Historical Society met this past week and have talked to Tommy about getting together and discussing Salem Township's pioneer cemeteries under his control. It has planned to have Tommy Crawford come to the next meeting which will be Feb. 16 at 6:30 pm at 125 W. Washington at the Delaware County Historical Society. Everyone is invited to come. Connie Jackson has approached me and is very concerned about another Salem Township cemetery which is Heath Cemetery. She took pictures of the toppled markers. She wants to get together with Tommy as well. She has contacted other descendants of interred individuals located in the Heath Cemetery. Thanks for the interest in Delaware County's pioneer cemeteries. The Delaware County GenWeb shows the traumatic destruction in the some of Delaware County's Cemetery's. Mark Kreps mjkreps@gmail.com Muncie, IN On 1/21/06, Bob Alloway <ralloway@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > > _____ > > From: unicorn1945 [mailto:unicorn1945@sbcglobal.net] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:47 PM > To: Bob Alloway > Subject: Re: CEMETERY DESTRUCTION > > > > Bob, > > > > I'll let you take a look for yourself. There are five or six pages of > photos of the destruction. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~indelawa/sharp-cem-vandalized.html > > > > As I understand it, the destruction started several years ago with kids > partying in the cemetery and has continued on a fairly regular basis. I > called the twp trustee and got one msg back on my answering machine. I > have > called twice since and got no return calls. I haven't been to the > courthouse yet to see who is paying taxes on the property but, if my > source > of information is correct, even a private owner has certain laws he must > meet and this one violates at least a few. > > > > Sharp Cemetery is one of the oldest in the county and is a pioneer > cemetery. > > > > > Thank you, > > Shirley Pearson > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Bob Alloway <mailto:ralloway@earthlink.net> > > To: 'unicorn1945' <mailto:unicorn1945@sbcglobal.net> > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:10 PM > > Subject: CEMETERY DESTRUCTION > > > > Call the trustees office in your township and see if they own it. If it is > on private ground you maybe able to go to courthouse in Muncie and have > assessor look it up. Is it being vandalized or farmed over? > > > > Jeannie can advise you what action she can take. In some cases, where the > land owner is doing the destruction, she can get him to stop. Let me know > what you find out.. What is the location of the cemetery, and the name.. > > > > She maybe out of her office on Friday`s..Bob > > > > > _____ > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > >