In a message dated 9/17/2002 3:25:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > >>>Does anyone know when the law was passed that loved ones could not be > buried on their home property?<<< > > I asked funeral director Bill Garrett about what was required to start a family cemetery in February. It wasn't that it wasn't allowed, you just had to have several hundred thousand dollars in escrow generating enough interest to cover the charges of maintainence of the plot. Townships are responsible for mowing all cemeteries, Vinton has trouble getting any money to do the extras needed. I found a cemetery restoration project underway in Pickaway county last month where they are resetting old toppled stones onto deep concrete bases. I'ts the first time I've seen this done. There was a cemetery in Hocking county where someone bulldozed the stones away and put up a trailer park. R. Morgan