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    1. Re: Warrenton Cemetery
    2. kenneth t h mcfarland
    3. 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

    09/03/2001 02:53:05
    1. Kenneth McFarland RE: Warrenton Cemetery
    2. Thomas Ray McELroy
    3. if you have no particular interest in Warrenton Cemetery you must live in a fantasy World to have nothing better to do then to Jack with me and waste the time of us all!!!!! I tried to call the Sexton every day for the last two month's with no ancer and no call back!!! if you can not be any help!!!!!! then Keep your fantasy World to your self!!!! So some one that really cares can find the graves!!! if you have no particular interest in it then keep out of it!!! you Are ludicrous and irresponsible where is your world you live in it must fantasy Island The Plane The Plane!!!!! go back to your Island there you will have Good reason to shoot your mouth off and no won would need to waste there time!!!! on some one that has no particular interest in Warrenton Cemetery in the first place!!!!!!! until you see it for your self And Walked in my Steps Do not hold judgments on me!!!! here is my e-mail mailto:[email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth t h McFarland mailto:[email protected] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 7:53 AM

    09/03/2001 06:09:18