----- Original Message ----- From: "Julaine and Isby Schexnayder" <julainehome@cox.net> To: "Don GEN Louviere" <donlouviere@yahoo.com>; <LALGS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:27 PM Subject: [LALGS] Some 50 Patoutville Cemetery graves are dilapidated >A notice for the website of the Lafayette Genealogical Society: > > This is a notice to anyone who has ancestors who were part of the St. > Nicholas Catholic Church near Patoutville/Lydia. There are many dozens of > sites throughout which are nothing more than a pile of broken bricks and > mortar. Some are open so that the remains are visible! > > Is this the way you would want your great-great grandmother to "rest in > peace"? > > Furthermore, a Finance Committee from the church has posted signs > announcing that if these sites are not claimed and the graves repaired, > the remains will be removed to another spot and the site cleared. The > vast majority of these graves have markers. > > A group of genealogy enthusiasts including some people who live out of > state are working together to find living descendants and notify them of > the need to do repairs immediately. > > Anyone in this organization who suspects he has an ancestor buried there > can contact me, and we can help you to determine if this is a problem for > you and your family. > > My contact info is Julaine Deare Schexnayder, 337 365-7667, or > julainehome@cox.net > > We are also working under the leadership of genealogy hobbyist Don > Louviere from Houston to map and identify all of the sites. If you can > help in that regard, please send me the names and dates and location > (along with a photo of the tomb, if possible) of the plot. > > Julaine > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LALGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >