Hi Bettye, I took pictures of this cemetery a few years ago for Rebecca Highley May and they look pretty much like the pictures you have here with the exception that Ellis Highley's stone was still standing on its base then. Someone told me at one time there were funds available to restore old cemeterys, is there any truth to that or was that just a rumor and if so, do you know where I can inquire? Also, I haven't checked it out but I suppose I could find out who actually owned the property, I know many years ago, Mable Reed contacted my Dad to see if he owned the property and he had no interest in fixing up the old cemetery and sorry to say, I was not into genealogy back then. Perhaps if something can be done, we could generate enough interest to get it taken care of. Any thoughts? Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Warner" <bkwofc@i1.net> To: <mostfran@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:59 PM Subject: [MOSTFRAN] Highley-McKee Cemetery, Desloge, MO > New cemetery online: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/cemeteries/highley_mckee_cemetery_index.htm > > This is one of the oldest and most endangered cemeteries > in St. Francois County. > > Bettye > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Ruth, Rebecca sent me your photos yesterday. That's how I knew where Ellis' stone came from. As far as I know, the property on which the cemetery is situated belongs to the Murrys who own the trucking company there. I'm not sure about funds being available to restore old cemeteries. You might be able to find something on that on the State of Missouri website, or maybe Mabel Reed might know something about that. I bet you'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it. There's a guy named Ron Highley from Arkansas who was in the area recently and talked to the Murrys about the cemetery. His emails show up as Denise Highley on the mailing list. If you want to email him and have problems finding his email, let me know as I probably have it on the subscriber list for the St. Francois County Mailing List. Bettye On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:11:13 -0600 "Ruth Carver" <snoopinn2thepast@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Hi Bettye, I took pictures of this cemetery a few years >ago for Rebecca > Highley May and they look pretty much like the pictures >you have here with > the exception that Ellis Highley's stone was still >standing on its base > then. Someone told me at one time there were funds >available to restore old > cemeterys, is there any truth to that or was that just a >rumor and if so, do > you know where I can inquire? Also, I haven't checked >it out but I suppose > I could find out who actually owned the property, I know >many years ago, > Mable Reed contacted my Dad to see if he owned the >property and he had no > interest in fixing up the old cemetery and sorry to say, >I was not into > genealogy back then. Perhaps if something can be done, >we could generate > enough interest to get it taken care of. Any thoughts? > > Ruth > > > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "B. Warner" <bkwofc@i1.net> > To: <mostfran@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:59 PM > Subject: [MOSTFRAN] Highley-McKee Cemetery, Desloge, MO > > >> New cemetery online: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/cemeteries/highley_mckee_cemetery_index.htm >> >> This is one of the oldest and most endangered cemeteries >> in St. Francois County. >> >> Bettye >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >message