I am looking for Jack Fly or Ted Roller or Jay Trace. I am the coordinator of the Lawrence County MoGen website. I live in Mt Vernon and have one big mess on my hands. Several years ago the city administrator wanted to put a road through the cemetery. Well they did at the expense of many graves. The workers took the stone they plowed up and took them to a dump site for concrete to be ground up. Fortunately someone saw the stones and made the city retreieve them from the dump. Not knowing what to do with them, they took the stones to the sewer department and laid them out between 2 buildings. My friend Connie and I have been hauling them to my house and cleaning them up. The city has poured a concrete slab for the stones to be laid out on when we are done. That is just one of the problems here in Mt Vernon. Another problems is a list of 15 - 20 names that is known to be buried in the colored section (their words not mine) that have no stones. I would really like to know how to locate some of these graves. Donna Cooper from Barry county suggested I write to the mailing list for help. She tells me there is a method called witching and that the 3 people named above are pretty much experts at it. I would love to talk to some or all of you about it and maybe learn how to do it. What is needed to do it and how it works. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from you. Please email me at vkizer@gmail.com Thanks Vicki Kizer

Vicki, Here are the state statutes for cemetery laws that I have linked to the main cemetery page on the Barry County web site. I wonder if the city isn't in violation of one or more of the Missouri cemetery laws.  The state frowns on the destruction of our cemeteries. Even when cities don't understand the importance of state statues, I am sorry to be the first to tell them that they are not above the law.  http://www.moga.mo.gov/STATUTES/C214.HTM Donna Cooper >________________________________ >From: Vicki Kizer <vkizer@gmail.com> >To: mobarry@rootsweb.com >Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:07 PM >Subject: [MOBARRY] Witching a Cemetery > >I am looking for Jack Fly or Ted Roller or Jay Trace.  I am the coordinator >of the Lawrence County MoGen website. I live in Mt Vernon and have one big >mess on my hands. >Several years ago the city administrator wanted to put a road through the >cemetery.  Well they did at the expense of many graves.  The workers took >the stone they plowed up and took them to a dump site for concrete to be >ground up.  Fortunately someone saw the stones and made the city retreieve >them from the dump. Not knowing what to do with them, they took the stones >to the sewer department and laid them out between 2 buildings.  My friend >Connie and I have been hauling them to my house and cleaning them up. >The city has poured a concrete slab for the stones to be laid out on when we >are done.  That is just one of the problems here in Mt Vernon. > >Another problems is a list of 15 - 20 names that is known to be buried in >the colored section (their words not mine) that have no stones. I would >really like to know how to locate some of these graves.  Donna Cooper from >Barry county suggested I write to the mailing list for help. She tells me >there is a method called witching and that the 3 people named above are >pretty much experts at it. > >I would love to talk to some or all of you about it and maybe learn how to >do it. >What is needed to do it and how it works. > >Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. > >Looking forward to hearing from you.  Please email me at vkizer@gmail.com > >Thanks >Vicki Kizer >The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >