Maybe your township trustee should be investigated for spending public money on private property! Just a thought. >From: "Cindy & Dale Frie" <skifri@qtm.net> >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [INPCRP] We have run into a snag! >Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:24:29 -0500 > >Hello everyone I sure hope someone can offer some advice here! I know I am >asking about Michigan laws but I'm hoping some one some where can help. > >Since March we have been working along side a group of volunteers in one of >the "township" owned cemeteries in Berrien County. We have been cutting >down >old trees and bushes that were taking over "the headstones". As well as >repairing broken stones and cleaning them, and we are still repairing >headstones. > >The cemetery we have been cleaning is actually two cemeteries. One consists >of a 1/2 acre, that became a cemetery in 1907 that is owned by the >township. >The other cemetery is an acre which was started on or before 1854. The two >cemeteries are divided by a row of 3 maple trees. Since there is not other >physical boundary between these cemeteries they appear to be one. > >There have been burials in the acre cemetery as late as 1996 if not 1999, >under the jurisdiction of the township. > >The acre cemetery was deeded by the land owner to about 10 men for the sum >of $1.. According to a local history book (which by the way was written by >a >local judge) the land was deeded to the settlement of Bainbridge. > >About a month ago the township decided since there is no legal document >stating the land was turned over to the township the acre cemetery is in >fact not owned by the township and therefore will stop taking care of it! > >Does anyone on this list know of any Michigan Cemetery Law that can hold >the >township responsible for the upkeep of the acre cemetery? > >Cindy L (Skiles) Frie >"SkiFri" > > >==== 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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Marge I got two reply's already from the Indiana List. How long has the clerk held this office? Cindy L (Skiles) Frie "SkiFri" ----- Original Message ----- From: jon andrews <sianoil@hotmail.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] We have run into a snag! > Maybe your township trustee should be investigated for spending public money > on private property! Just a thought. > > > >From: "Cindy & Dale Frie" <skifri@qtm.net> > >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [INPCRP] We have run into a snag! > >Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:24:29 -0500 > > > >Hello everyone I sure hope someone can offer some advice here! I know I am > >asking about Michigan laws but I'm hoping some one some where can help. > > > >Since March we have been working along side a group of volunteers in one of > >the "township" owned cemeteries in Berrien County. We have been cutting > >down > >old trees and bushes that were taking over "the headstones". As well as > >repairing broken stones and cleaning them, and we are still repairing > >headstones. > > > >The cemetery we have been cleaning is actually two cemeteries. One consists > >of a 1/2 acre, that became a cemetery in 1907 that is owned by the > >township. > >The other cemetery is an acre which was started on or before 1854. The two > >cemeteries are divided by a row of 3 maple trees. Since there is not other > >physical boundary between these cemeteries they appear to be one. > > > >There have been burials in the acre cemetery as late as 1996 if not 1999, > >under the jurisdiction of the township. > > > >The acre cemetery was deeded by the land owner to about 10 men for the sum > >of $1.. According to a local history book (which by the way was written by > >a > >local judge) the land was deeded to the settlement of Bainbridge. > > > >About a month ago the township decided since there is no legal document > >stating the land was turned over to the township the acre cemetery is in > >fact not owned by the township and therefore will stop taking care of it! > > > >Does anyone on this list know of any Michigan Cemetery Law that can hold > >the > >township responsible for the upkeep of the acre cemetery? > > > >Cindy L (Skiles) Frie > >"SkiFri" > > > > > >==== 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 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE, send message consisting only of > "UNSUBSCRIBE" to INPCRP-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > or to INPCRP-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com (for DIGEST version) >