Donna, I need to clarify some mis-information on the Mt. Vernon cemetery. I know that this really doesn't belong to the Barry County info but it was posted on your site, so I want to clarify on your site for your followers. 1st, the road was platted in 1939 and filed with the Recorder of Deeds on 04 Nov. 1940. When the city, not sure of the date, decided to chip & seal the road, they tried to widen the SW corner at Pauper's field and went over a corner stone marker of a lot. This was brought to their attention and was corrected and sod was replaced at that time. 2nd, the Pauper's field and/or colored section had grown up in weeds and the trees and underbrush were thick. The city was cleaning it and when they pulled a stump at the edge of the revine, there were piles of stones that had been hidden by the undergrowth. The employees were told by a previous (and short lived) city administrator to take them to the city dump. An anonymous caller (to me) brought it to the attention of the Lawrence County Record. This was in the spring/summer of 2000. the city then retrieved the stones and cleaned them up and placed them between the buildings at the city maintenance facility, not knowing what else to do without a plan. Yes, it has been 10 years, but they are now "Going Home." Vicki and I volunteered to clean the stones and put them on the slab of concrete that had been poured to be their home. The city departments are closed on the weekend, so we took about 45 of the smaller stones to Vicki's house to clean (so we could have running water) on Saturday and then returned them to the cemetery. The city employees brought the rest of the stones to the cemetery on Monday and "piled them" next to the slab. We have found 3-4 stones with names, at least one of them has a new stone and they are not on the survey that was done by Fred Mieswinkel in 1965 and they died long before that time. So, could this be a place where old stones were put when they were replaced. (I know that the Pierce City Cemetery has a place like that). Most "appear" to be possible foot stones. But I can not say that for sure. No one knows how they got to the revine, nor do we know how long that they have been there. We do know that the dump was not the proper place for them and should never have happened, but it did, and now the city is trying to right a wrong that had been done. They are working with us to get this done. Connie Stockton Schmidt Quoting Donna Cooper <donnac58@yahoo.com>: > 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 > > > > > > > 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 >