Hi all, In light of what has been happening about the Claremore Cemetery and many others across our U.S.A.. In the County in which I live in , in California a group of folks started a Cemetery Historical Society that goes to the lost family cemeteries and restores them. They had fund raisers and lots of donations in order to bring the old dilapidated cemeteries back to respectable standards. Where there were no head stone or the ones that were there that were badly broken were repaired and replaced and added. Our local monument place donated the stones, lumber companies donated fencing and other materials and nursery's donated their goods. The Society has completed one project and are now working on another. The land owners were afraid that they would lose their land with the Cemeteries being known so the County drew up agreements with the land owners that they would not lose the land nor would they have to maintain the portions that the cemeteries were on, the historical group has agreed to keep up the maintenance and the County agreed to set aside funds to help. So in all we here in Ca. have had a win win situation and the deceased are now being respected. Debbie Oxford Long Kings County, California visit: Oxford's Of The World: http://www.genweb.net/Oxford/index.htm Oxford Site e-mail: [email protected] Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: [OKROOTS] Claremore Cem. > No, this was not a hoax. It just wasn't as recent as first thought. The > headstones were indeed bulldozed. Ms. Doyle is helping us, I am asking about > the bodies, etc. > Below is the latest e-mail received on this matter. I am also asking if the > guy who did the bulldozing was fined, etc. Will send a follow-up ASAP. You > all have been so wonderful in helping by calling, sending e-mail, and with > your suggestions. Something needs to be done about this not just whenever it > happens or after the fact as in this case. There should be stiffer fines or > a good 'ole lynchin' LOL. > > Wendy, > I checked at the court house today for a list of names for the old > cemetery, but had no luck. Gerry Payne hurt his back and is going to > have surgery right away. In fact, he might have had it today, I don't > know. They sent me to talk to an employee of Kenneth Crutchfield's > district. He didn't know anything about that cemetery, but he's going > to check on it tomorrow. He said we might be able to find a list of > names for that cemetery at the library. I'll check that out. > > The managing editor of the newspaper, Ms. Doyle, called me today wanting > to know what information I had on the cemetery. She said they had been > inundated with calls and e-mails from as far away as California. If I > find that list of names, I'll let you know. Later. Ed > >