Hello List, I need some help/advise on this one. It is similar to the recent septic tank cemetery. Two weeks ago my sister, myself and our husbands took a Sunday drive to Shelby county near Morristown in hopes of finding our fourth greatgrandparents. Armed with a cemetery list from the State Library compiled in 1952 that had some simple ( and incorrect as it turns out) directions we drove the area looking for likely places for a Pioneer Cemetery. The Cemetery List listed four marked graves on three of our ancestors and one other person. The list mentioned as many as 40 other graves marked with fieldstones, one with initials carved rudely. The dates from the ancestors 1835, 1836 and 1846. The list mentioned that when Asbury Cemetery was started that no more burials were made in this older cemetery. To make a long story short, we saw a man trimming trees and asked him if he knew of an old abandoned cemetery. He said that actually he was told that at one time there was supposed to be an old cemetery on his land and he was told that the headstones had been turned face down to "preserve" them and covered over with dirt. He said that actually his wife had made a rock garden from large rocks that had been in the yard when they built their house 10 years ago, one of them had initials carved on it and would we like to see it. We looked at the rock garden and indeed there were initials carved in one stone. I don't have the knowledge to say whether this was a grave marker at one time but it seemed suspicious to me having read the comments on the 1952 Cemetery List. He then seemed embarrassed and said that when the foundation was dug for their house, some remains (bones) were brought up along with old nails. The sheriff was called and someone from the state to determine whether the remains were from a Native American and it was determined they were from a 17 - 19 year old male caucasion. We went inside to talk to the man's wife and she remembered that they had found a headstone - when she told me the name, it was my 4th great grandmother. They gave the headstone to someone at the fire station that was supposed to be a decendent. We called that person to see what happened to the stone and he couldn't remember!!! We called the man who owned the land before the present owners and he said that he had been told that there was a cemetery on the land but all the graves had been moved to Asbury Cemetery and he didn't know anything else. About that time the wife's father and mother drove up and the older man said he remembered one time WHEN THEY WERE HAVING THEIR SEPTIC TANK WORKED ON in the winter he was walking in the backyard and thought he could see a headstone just below the surface. We probed a little in the area where he thought it was but didn't find anything. We have checked the list for Asbury Cemetery and an old entry indicated some "bones" moved from the property I am writing about. I personally think that some bones were moved, the Cemetery List says three or four" but the four graves that had markers were there in 1952 and very possibly are there now. I would like to get this "cemetery" registered with the DNR but if there really aren't any remains there, is it really a cemetery? If there are remains, is there someone out there that would like to help me probe or do whatever to find them. The people that own the land now said they would gladly let me try to find any graves short of digging up their backyard. This is entirely to much for me to handle without some help - any takers? Jane Kesslar misyjane15@aol.com 11227 Rolling Springs Drive Carmel, IN 46033 (317)848-7416