Carol Ohio --- Renessa Lewis <GenMom@cableone.net> wrote: > Here's where everyone is from so far... If you > haven't said yet, please do! > > Gladys - Arizona > Kathleen - SE Kansas City > Renessa - Joplin > Victoria - Joplin > Bill - Duncan, OK > Becky - Springfield > Fred - Newton Co. > Judith - Oregon > Robin - Portland, Oregon > Mary - Mercer Co. > Kathie - California > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your > List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

I bet if you look around your area you`ll find some that need TLC.if not,ask some county roads crews,linemen for utilities, old funeral homerecords,old obits in newspapers at your public librarys,you`ll be suprised what you come up with, here in Nebraska there are even people buried in crossroads,these being suiscides of course. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

The natural fencing will also make the cemetery not as noticible for those who would vandalize the stones! I love this idea. Renessa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen O'Brien-Blair" <ktho@kc.rr.com> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Cemeteries in disrepair > > I think we should find the cemetaries, look at the condition and then, if > > necessary, ask for contributions for expenses only. I personally help > keep > > our cemetary clean and the cost for gas, etc, is at my expense. The magic > of > > finding a cemetary is payment enough for me. > > This works for me. I was only worried about expenses mounting up for > planting new shrubs and plants, benches, arbours, fencing & etc. And some of > that could be donated. > > If we are able to get help form Scouts, Masons, etc., those are all well > known non-profit service organisation and any individual or business > donating "stuff" or money can write off that donation. > > BTW, I'm also an heirloom plant nut and my husband and I are also metal > detectorists. I want to stress that we *NEVER EVER* detect cemeteries. That > is Holy Ground as far as we are concerned, and treating it disrespectuflly > is inviitng very bad Karma...Noooo....Only old homesteads, churches, etc. > When we find sites we want to detect, we write a letter to the land owner > asking for permission. I sometimes find heirloom varieites of roses, peonies > and etc. and I *NEVER* dig them uless the landowner has given permission. > > The gist of this ramble is that if we decided to do some landscaping as part > of the spruce up - we might find stuff right there on the cemetery site > that just needs to be pruned and divided. > > We can also get conservation bundles of native trees from the conservation > department for next to nothing - $5/bundle - redbuds, dogwoods, hawthornes, > oaks, cedars, pines, lilacs, etc etc. > > Come to think of it, hedging has been used in Europe for centuries as a > substitute for fencing. A beautiful lilac and hawthorne hedge around the > cemetery - with gateposts and a gate, might serve just as well, depending on > the location, of course. > > Kathleen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Gololi@aol.com> > To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:13 AM > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Cemeteries in disrepair > > > > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >

A week or two before you begin a clean up,try getting that areas local paper print an artical about your intentions and the name of thecemetery,if unknown,then thelocation,and inviting anyone with info on the site to contact you.if it is an eldery person, thier memory may not be as good as before,and they may recall more after thinking about it ,so another visit with them{if they are agreeable, they may like to visit the site a couple times during the progress,if some one offers a ride,due to age maybejust a short visit. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

I think we should find the cemetaries, look at the condition and then, if necessary, ask for contributions for expenses only. I personally help keep our cemetary clean and the cost for gas, etc, is at my expense. The magic of finding a cemetary is payment enough for me.

I was on a mission one day to find my family's homestead, talked to a man from the area and found the ground, and he told us about other family things, including the cemetary where my great great uncle and his son was buried.

Okay, I get it, the cemtery is to the left of the church.... Yeah, that green page is hard to see... Kathleen

Kathleen On the left of the page it has a list of name and it says Ritchey Churches so click on it and when the page draws up it is the 2nd church on the right of the page. the Green page is real hard to see. let me know if you find it. I hate that green page. Pat ---------- > From: Kathleen O'Brien-Blair <ktho@kc.rr.com> > To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] url for Ritchey MO pictures of church, cem next too it. > http://www.vvm.com/~ritterh/ > Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:48 AM > > Pat: > > I can't find the pictures you're talking about on this site. Is it under > Ritchey School or churches or which? > > Kathleen > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kburnet@efortress.com > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

I think this is important and should continue!

Pat: I can't find the pictures you're talking about on this site. Is it under Ritchey School or churches or which? Kathleen ----- Original Message -----

http://www.vvm.com/~ritterh/ The cemetery is to the left in the woods, the graves we found were in an area of lots of trees. You can see what the town is like. My Maullers were buried at Humpherys Cemetery in Ritchey. The Black Fox cemetery is where we found Anna through a Lady who looked at nesho liberary. over by Wentworth MO, it is called Blackfox by the old timers or Van buren by the younger generation. There was no marker they said for Anna. No Record of John Griffith Mauller the records were lost for the year 1925. Pat Short

> I think we should find the cemetaries, look at the condition and then, if > necessary, ask for contributions for expenses only. I personally help keep > our cemetary clean and the cost for gas, etc, is at my expense. The magic of > finding a cemetary is payment enough for me. This works for me. I was only worried about expenses mounting up for planting new shrubs and plants, benches, arbours, fencing & etc. And some of that could be donated. If we are able to get help form Scouts, Masons, etc., those are all well known non-profit service organisation and any individual or business donating "stuff" or money can write off that donation. BTW, I'm also an heirloom plant nut and my husband and I are also metal detectorists. I want to stress that we *NEVER EVER* detect cemeteries. That is Holy Ground as far as we are concerned, and treating it disrespectuflly is inviitng very bad Karma...Noooo....Only old homesteads, churches, etc. When we find sites we want to detect, we write a letter to the land owner asking for permission. I sometimes find heirloom varieites of roses, peonies and etc. and I *NEVER* dig them uless the landowner has given permission. The gist of this ramble is that if we decided to do some landscaping as part of the spruce up - we might find stuff right there on the cemetery site that just needs to be pruned and divided. We can also get conservation bundles of native trees from the conservation department for next to nothing - $5/bundle - redbuds, dogwoods, hawthornes, oaks, cedars, pines, lilacs, etc etc. Come to think of it, hedging has been used in Europe for centuries as a substitute for fencing. A beautiful lilac and hawthorne hedge around the cemetery - with gateposts and a gate, might serve just as well, depending on the location, of course. Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: <Gololi@aol.com> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Cemeteries in disrepair > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

It was like being in a shady, lush courtyard. I have pictures if anyone is interested. B. Warner mailto:bkwofc@i1.net I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO E-MAIL ME A PICTURE. WHERE IS THIS PLACE LOCATED IN FARMINGTON? I AM AS WELL FROM FARMINGTON AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT. Cathy Huber chuber@fxnet.missouri.org

We are having a tremendous amount of activity on the Mo-Cemeteries mailing list - and have several conversations going on. It would help me and each of the members, especially those who receive the digest form of this list if you would make sure your SUBJECT LINE matches the topic of your message. I appreciate your help on this. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

I have been looking for an inventory of the Old Rosewood Cem., Malden, Dunklin Co., MO. It is not even listed on http://www.rootsweb.com/~modunkl2/dcmo-cem.htm Does anyone know if it has another name besides the Old Rosewood Cemetery? Kathleen Burnett

My only concern now is if we start posting a large amount of messages discussing the recent amount of members who unsubscribed due to they dissatifaction of the topic. These comments even though are meant as supportive will cause additional members to leave. As the List Mom for this list, I have not been concerned at all with the discussion of cemeteries and the cleaning of them. That is one of the reasons for this list. We can't worry about the members who left, hopefully some will retrun and just today we have had many new members join us. As a reminder, The MO-Cemeteries mailing list is for anyone interested in locating, and preserving historical information about, Missouri cemeteries. We welcome queries and postings regarding location of graves, cemeteries which have been indexed both on the internet and in other written forms, cemetery research, and the care of tombstones and cemeteries. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

I agree ----- Original Message ----- From: "norma ortiz" <notiz_1999@yahoo.com> To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] cleaning up cemeteries - people unsubscribing > I think the list is big enough to carry all kinds of > mail concerning cemeteries,the delete button still > works.I would like to keep everything on this one list > and not have to join another.....Norma > > > > > --- Renessa Lewis <GenMom@cableone.net> wrote: > > I too am worried about the number of unsubscribes > > since we started this > > discussion. I have found a site where we can start > > an email list just for > > this discussion, then maybe we won't disturb the > > others who are not > > interested. Any ideas, I will sign us up and get it > > started if you all > > think it is a good idea. > > > > Renessa > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jeff & Kathie Fisher" <punknkat@inreach.com> > > To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] cleaning up cemeteries - > > people unsubscribing > > > > > > > Kathleen, > > > I can only say that sometimes the amount of email > > this site generates can > > > seem overwhelming at times. I too have thought of > > unsubscribing in the > > past > > > for that reason. For example: My computer was down > > for the past five days > > > and when I finally got into my email late last > > night the were 136 > > messages, > > > most of them were from this site. I wonder if it > > would be possible to > > > somehow set up a chat room for just such times as > > these when there is a > > > subject of intense interest so that the back and > > fourth discussion could > > > still happen without clogging all of the list > > members email. Just an idea. > > I > > > agree with you though that preserving old > > cemetaries is something that > > needs > > > to be paid more attention to, not just in Missouri > > but everywhere and if > > > some of those members who do live closer together > > can save even one then > > > this list has acomplished something wonderful. > > > Kathie > > > San Joaquin Co., California > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Kathleen O'Brien-Blair <ktho@kc.rr.com> > > > To: <MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:42 PM > > > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] cleaning up cemeteries - > > people unsubscribing > > > > > > > > > > Ummm, I'm seeing a lot of unsubscribes all of a > > sudden...I really hope > > we > > > aren't running off people, because if we are, I > > want to find a way to > > repair > > > those relationships. > > > > > > > > As I see it, prowling old cemeteries and > > rescuing them from decay is a > > > very important part of geneaology. You just never > > know who you'll find > > where > > > or to whom that information might be important. > > > > > > > > I certainly think that looking up graves for > > folks is *just* as > > important > > > and I never intended to marginalise those > > interests when I suggested a > > > cemetery rescue project. I thought it was just a > > natural extension.... > > > > > > > > I'm feeling uncomfortable here..... List Mom? > > > > > > > > Kathleen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > > > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test > > messages, chain letters, > > > political > > > > announcements, current events, items for sale, > > personal messages, > > flames, > > > > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and > > will be grounds for > > > removal. > > > > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen > > Burnett > > > kburnet@efortress.com > > > > To learn more about my world visit > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > > > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery > > List > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > > > > If you know how to reduce these risks. > > > > > > > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > > Checkout the other lists being watched over by > > your List Mom; > > > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > > To learn more about my world visit > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > > > > > ============================== > > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > > > > > ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your > > List Mom; > > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > To learn more about my world visit > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy > > access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. 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Five years ago my son restored a cemetery in IL for his Eagle project. One of the things he did was visit a couple of local golf courses and asked them to donate grass seed and chemicals needed for the grass. Each course donated several bags of the dry chemicals and seed. When he wrote up his report for the Eagle board he mentioned both of them. Each were happy to donate the supplies. Scouts are always looking for good Eagle projects and allot of companies will donate the money for this good cause. Get your local scout troop involved. Regards and good luck. Fred McCormack

Right now everyone is tossing out ideas,after that things will get back to normal,and we can look forward to someone finding one of our ancestors,it will be very interesting hearing and seeing pictures of as the work is going on.Ithink it`s too early to discuss funds,first just the basic clean up,in each ones own area,then as it grows if there are repairs needed that costs then donations could beaccepted,I`m sure local merchants would donate items needed....Norma __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

If you send me your email address I will send you my cemetery clean-up how to directly. We don't want to upset any othervlist purist. bquinn@dialnet.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Cintrfire810@cs.com To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] cleaning up cemeteries - people unsubscribing What about a cemetery repair list? ==== MO-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Missouri Cemetery list, use MO-CEMETERIES-l-request@rootsweb.com or MO-CEMETERIES-d-request@rootsweb.com if you are on the Digest list. To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett Vist the Mo-Cemeteries Volunteer and Cemetery List http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocemete/mocem.htm ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2