Connie, loowing should be the information you are looking for. *Missouri Revised Statutes**Chapter 214 Cemeteries Section 214.131 * August 28, 2010 *Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty--abandoned or private burying ground, defined. * 214.131. Every person who shall knowingly destroy, mutilate, disfigure, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure placed in any abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornamentation of any such cemetery or place of burial of any human being, or tomb, monument or gravestone, memento, or memorial, or other structure aforesaid, or of any lot within such cemetery is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. For the purposes of this section and subsection 1 of section 214.132, an "abandoned family cemetery" or "private burying ground" shall include those cemeteries or burying grounds which have not been deeded to the public as provided in chapter 214, and in which no body has been interred for at least twenty-five years. (L. 1987 H.B. 60 § 1) Jack Fly On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, <schmidtcl@centurytel.net> wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the direction to find out how to get a cemetery > declared as abandoned? > > Connie Stockton Schmidt > > 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 >