In a message dated 11/8/01 10:07:47 PM US Eastern Standard Time, cherokee@shelbynet.net writes: > ? Does she get a refund for all the taxes she has paid on it since 1962? > > > Cris West > Columbus, IN > > > Cris, I will answer one question only, Last year I located a Deed to a "Lost" cemetery in Floyd Co. It was recorded in 1826 and carried forward to the next owner. He dropped it from the deed when he sold it in 1843. It is 1 acre. The present owner bought a total of 2.4 acres in 1970. In 1972 he went out to clear an area to build a house on. He discovered a cemetery in a very, very grown up area between the rd. and the back of his property. Being a good religious man, he moved the location of his house to the back of the lot, leaving the cemetery intact. After I visited him and found no cemetery on his deed, I back tracked until I found it listed by the original owner before the first sale, after the original owner bought it from the government. I took a copy to the assessor and showed her the deed. She said the only thing she could do was give the present owner a 3 year back tax allowance, and there would be no further taxes due on this acre. All he had to do was go in and sign a paper declaring he had no use of the ground and ask for the original deed to be accepted and the matter was settled. The original deed stood, although it had been dropped over 135 years earlier. I couldn't believe the man had moved the location of his house and left the cemetery to become his front yard. The deed read "until the end of Time" the assessor said no matter that it had been dropped from the deed, it could never be changed. It would always be a cemetery. The original deed recorded in 1826 in the Recorders office cannot be changed "From now until the End of Time" It is now listed in the assessors office, and no longer taxed. Jack E. Briles, Sr. Floyd County PCRP Coordinator PO Box 444 New Albany, In. 47151-0444 (812) 282-6585