Hello All, Now it is the time for all good men & women to come to the aid of the cause. Many of you have done some great things to help the cause of genealogy. Others just sit back like little birds in the nest waiting for the mother bird to fly by and drop a worm in their gaping beak. Which are you? We need some help from you to clean a cemetery in Garvin county. Why am I so concerned about Garvin county, I'm not. I am concerned about a cemetery, period!!! Purdy is about 20 miles NW of Sulphur. The cemetery is terribly overgrown and needs to be cleaned before it is lost forever. Brenda Choate is the CC for Garvin County and she and I have worked on many projects together. Here is a link for one of them: http://www.interment.net/column/feature/stolen/index.htm Those of you who live in this area, we need your help. This is the time for you to get off your duff and help!!! Those of you who don't live here, I wish you did. Here is Brenda's email: *************************** Dennis, Do you know anyone who might want to help with Old Purdy. Betty Barnett and her husband, Tom, want to try to do a cleanup sometime the end of this month or the 1st weekend in November. It will take chainsaws, weedeaters, hoes, rakes, shovels to do this. Don't need mowers. It is in such bad shape that soon it will be gone, lost to us forever just as Robberson already is. We put an ad in the paper to see if we could get some volunteers, but so far, no takers. I know you are busy every Saturday, but we could go on Sunday if we had to. Betty and I are going to try to start an "Adopt a Cemetery" program, to see if we can get some of these cemeteries taken care of, kind of like the "Adopt a Highway" program. Families, business, organizations, etc., could mow a cemetery for the summer. Do you have any suggestions. If we could get a well known organization behind this it might work. BC ******************************************* If you can HELP let me know. We will set up a date that will fit most schedules. Thanks and maybe you will see where I am coming from now. Dennis