Jack, This deed, dated 1849, does not specify the purpose of the exception, which leads me to believe that I'm missing an earlier deed. I think that question will be answered once I have the missing deed. The only transfer FROM the original owner was too his heirs, but I think the original owner acquired some additional property (next door to his land grant purchase) between 1830 and 1839. That additional property is actually where the excepted area is located, and both properties are part of the current deed. Of course, I didn't figure that out until after I got back home from my research trip on Friday. This cemetery is located in Daviess county, and it only takes me about 2 hours to get there. Finding enough time to make that round trip plus the research time is the hard part for me. It might slow me down, but it won't stop me. Debra Dougherty ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jb502000@aol.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] What's my next step? > Debra, > You say there is an Exception on the deed. Does the deed specify this > Exception as a graveyard, or is it a total amount of Acreage with the > Exception of a certain amount that had previously been SOLD to someone else > and there fore Excepted from the original deed. The Exception must say > "Graveyard" and the size. > Jack E. Briles, Sr. > Floyd County PCRP Coordinator > PO Box 444 > New Albany, In. 47151-0444 > (812) 282-6585 > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families > are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is > undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, > historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved > in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - > not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family > memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of > yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery > exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > > >