This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.2 Message Board Post: I have heard that most all of the cemeteries in HC are getting in really bad shape. John Langford--before he passed away- was doing a pretty good job of recording and cleaning some of them, but since his death I don't know of anyone who is working on them. I don't know much about the cemetery on Liggett St in Wallins, but I sent your question on to Kathryn Trail, who at one time lived in Wallins and recorded a lot of the cemteries there. She might be able to answer that question. Some of the families listed at the Sang Branch Cem (Ky King Cem) were Scott, Howard, Hensley, Helton, Shackleford,Caldwell, Spurlock and others.--Janette

Several years ago I was so struck by how overrun the Stephen Cawood cemetery was, I called around to to various Harlan city offices. I finally found a very nice lady who was a secretary in one of the court offices, and I expressed my concerns and asked who was responsible for these small town cemeteries. She said she would ask the judge if he could send some of the county jail inmates to clear the cemetery. He must have done so, because on my next trip to Cawood, we could visit areas that had not been cleared for years. Whoever those inmates were, they did a fine job and I was grateful. Our immediate family graves are looked after by my cousin's family, which has tended them for years. Many other families do the same. But we are all aging, and anyone can see what will happen in years to come. This year, the Cawood cemetery was fairly cleared. You can see where some families have "taken up" their deceased family members and moved them, I suppose to a bigger place such as Resthaven in Harlan. We could find my auntie's father's grave, which was often hidden by brambles of wild roses. I'm a transplant Kentuckian. Born in Cawood, raised in Ohio, and I know just about every name in the Stephen Cawood cemetery, and am somehow related to many of them. There are thousands of people like me, with emotional ties to places we never really lived, or rarely lived, and lots of us are interested to preserving and respecting our ancestors graves. We just can't do the necessary work. Sharon > From: gjnolan@aol.com > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:41:44 -0600 > To: KYHARLAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYHARLAN] Re: cemeteries > Resent-From: KYHARLAN-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:41:48 -0600 > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6867.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I have heard that most all of the cemeteries in HC are getting in really bad > shape. John Langford--before he passed away- was doing a pretty good job of > recording and cleaning some of them, but since his death I don't know of > anyone who is working on them. I don't know much about the cemetery on > Liggett St in Wallins, but I sent your question on to Kathryn Trail, who at > one time lived in Wallins and recorded a lot of the cemteries there. She > might be able to answer that question. Some of the families listed at the > Sang Branch Cem (Ky King Cem) were Scott, Howard, Hensley, Helton, > Shackleford,Caldwell, Spurlock and others.--Janette > > > > ==== KYHARLAN Mailing List ==== > Harlan Kentucky Websites. > Harlan County Research: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/ > Harlan County: AHGP: http://www.ahgp.org/ > Harlan County ALHN: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharla2/ >