--part1_bb.e3d324.25cc8f86_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/4/00 2:19:15 PM Central Standard Time, JD2OK writes: Subj: Fwd: CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED Date: 2/4/00 2:19:15 PM Central Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:JD2OK">JD2OK</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> Dear Mr. Edwards, We desparately need your help in this matter. You can contact me at (phone number) here in OKC. Thanks so much, Jann Davenport (copy of emails were included) --part1_bb.e3d324.25cc8f86_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: JD2OK Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:19:15 EST Subject: Fwd: CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_bb.e3d324.25cc8e43_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 44 --part2_bb.e3d324.25cc8e43_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Mr. Edwards, We desparately need your help in this matter. You can contact me at 405-681-9334 here in OKC. Thanks so much, Jann Davenport --part2_bb.e3d324.25cc8e43_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: JD2OK Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:07:22 EST Subject: CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 44 Mr. Blackburn, I am forwarding to you several emails I received through the OKRoots list t= o=20 which I subscribe. We are very concerned about the cemetery in Claremore, and would like your=20 advice on what action can be taken to protect this cemetery from complete=20 distruction. Thank you so much for your attention to this matter. Jann Davenport Oklahoma City Subj: [OKROOTS] CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED Date: 2/3/00 5:26:59 PM Central Standard Time From: [email protected] To: [email protected] A gentleman that lives in Claremore, Rogers County, OK wrote me and asked=20 for=20 help. =20 One more thing about cemeteries; in the mid to late 1800's the town of Claremore was 3 1/2 miles north of its present location. They moved it so it could be on the railroad. At the old town site was a small cemetery with some fairly large headstones. It now sits in the middle of a ranch. Some one up there has been bulldozing trees and brush and have bulldozed the cemetery off in a ravine. Is there anything that can be done about this? I've contacted the county commissioner, the mayor,and the Rogers County Historical Society. Nothing has been done. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks again for everything.=20 Who was the commissioner you contacted? If need be I will call the town council. This is ridiculous and is still bothering me. I wonder if the=20 one you are talking about is the old Talber Cemetery that I can't find anything on. Let me know. I asked him who the commissioner was that he contacted and perhaps he should= =20 contact the newspaper. Here was the reply: Wendy, The county commissioner that I contacted is Gerry Payne. That's his district where it's located. Gerry didn't know that the cemetery existed and he did go check on it and told me that I was right that it was the old Claremore Cemetery and that it was gone and that it had been bulldozed. I don't know if it had been called the Talber Cemetery or not. I had always heard it called the old Claremore Cemetery. I don't think Gerry knew what to do about it, so he hasn't done anything. When I was a teen ager growing up here, one of my friend's dad was the foreman for that ranch ( at that time under a different owner) and I spent a lot of time roaming around that ranch. We used to read on the old tombstones. I would guess there was about 30 or 40 graves, but that's been so many years ago I can't really remember. I do remember some of the names; such as Bushyhead which was an Indian family from this area, and also several members of the Starr family. We used to think they were probably some of Belle Starr's family since this area is where she was from. The Indians might be who we should contact. Let me know what you think about that. Thanks Ed Cemeteries Date: 2/3/00 9:19:37 PM Central Standard Time From: [email protected] To: [email protected] =A721-1167. =A721-1167. =20 Every person who shall willfully or with malicious intent destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure placed in any cemetery or private burying ground, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of any such cemetery or place of burial of any human being, or tomb, monument or gravestone, memento, or memorial, or other structure aforesaid, or of any lot within a cemetery, or shall willfully or with malicious intent destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub or plant, within the limits thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (I think the dictrict attorney should be contacted about this, quoting the=20 above law as his jurisdiction over the matter. Also, there are similar laws= =20 if the cemetery contains Indian graves.) Jack Childers in OKC =20 --part2_bb.e3d324.25cc8e43_boundary-- --part1_bb.e3d324.25cc8f86_boundary--