BRAVO,Ken.----Bob -----Original Message----- From: kenneth t h mcfarland <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Warrenton Cemetery > I have never seen the Warrenton Cemetery, and have no particular interest in it - other than that my wife has a couple of distant relatives in it. But I have an interest in seeing that any old graveyard is preserved and maintained as well as possible.. I just thought that the writer of the vicious attack on the Sexton - that's how it should be spelled - should find out how it is in the real (non-make-believe) world. > It would be wonderful if every cemetery, everywhere, had records of every birth from day #1. So would $20 bills growing on trees. Neither thing is likely to happen. Unless you have a cemetery that is connected to a church, which may or may not have decent records, it is rare to find one that has any decent records before 1900. Occasionally, you may find a cemetery corporation whose records may go back to the 1880s, but this is a very unusual event. > Since this is a cemetery that has apparently been in very bad shape for many years, it is unfair and ludicrous to attack the Sexton because of the lack of record-keeping on the part of people who have, themselves, probably been dead for 150 years. Sextons are usually unpaid (or nearly so) and are mainly responsible for keeping the grass cut, and making sure that a new burial isn't on top of an old one. Be thankful that the cemetery even has a sexton. After a ripping like this, if it were me, they wouldn't have one any more. These people should be praised for what they do, not treated like dirt. > Ken, IBSSG > Avella, PA > > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Can We Stop Playing Games and use this list for what is meant fore??????? -----Original Message----- From: robert loughley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 7:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Warrenton Cemetery BRAVO, Ken.----Bob mailto:[email protected] -----Original Message----- From: kenneth t h mcfarland mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Warrenton Cemetery