Fellow genealogists and anyone concerned with preserving our sacred cemeteries, Time Warner and The History Channel are sponsoring a 'Save Our History' grant award for which anyone can go online and cast their vote. Voting ends THIS FRIDAY April 27th, so time is short. We were fortunate that our restoration project was chosen as a finalist. The JCOGS is the only genealogy society or cemetery project to be chosen as one of the five finalists, so I truly hope that you will go to the Time Warner website and cast your vote for the James Cemetery project. If awarded this grant, we will use 100% of the grant to begin installing an antique-style aluminum alloy fence around the perimeter in order to help halt further desecration of this sacred and historic burial ground. You can read more about our James Cemetery project at the Time Warner 'Save Our History' voting website. Please unite with us as a group of genealogists concerned about the ever-increasing destruction of our cemeteries by VOTING for us at the website below. And note also that ANYONE with Internet access can VOTE so please forward this email to your genealogy circle of friends and ask THEM to vote too! Link for voting: http://www.aroundrr.com/SaveOurHistory James Cemetery website: http://coyan.net/JamesCemeteryindex.html Anthony Coyan Secretary, Jackson County Chapter - Ohio Genealogical Society
You are performing a great service to preserving the History of our Country! A cemetery that concerns me is the old cemetery at Beemerville, New Jersey. A visit there in the early 1990's found this cemetery in deplorable condition. At least one Revolutionary Soldier is buried in this cemetery, William Hedglin( my ancestor). The DAR marked this grave in about 1933-1935. You take your chances in walking this cemetery. There are many sunken graves covered with vines. There is a very old listing of this cemetery on the internet; it however, does not include the name of William Hedglin. This Cemetery also deserves a project similar to the James Cemetery one. Perhaps a local DAR Chapter could investigate the possibility. I live in Mississippi. Mary Phillips----- Original Message ----- From: <acoyan@adelphia.net> To: <PALACKAW@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:12 PM Subject: [PALACKAW] James Cemetery Indian mound > Fellow genealogists and anyone concerned with preserving our sacred > cemeteries, > > Time Warner and The History Channel are sponsoring a 'Save Our History' > grant > award for which anyone can go online and cast their vote. Voting ends THIS > FRIDAY April 27th, so time is short. > > We were fortunate that our restoration project was chosen as a finalist. > The JCOGS is the only genealogy society or cemetery project to be chosen > as one of the five finalists, so I truly hope that you will go to the Time > Warner website and cast your vote for the James Cemetery project. If > awarded this grant, we will use 100% of the grant to begin installing an > antique-style aluminum alloy fence around the perimeter in order to help > halt further desecration of this sacred and historic burial ground. > > You can read more about our James Cemetery project at the Time Warner > 'Save Our > History' voting website. Please unite with us as a group of genealogists > concerned about the ever-increasing destruction of our cemeteries by > VOTING for > us at the website below. And note also that ANYONE with Internet access > can VOTE > so please forward this email to your genealogy circle of friends and ask > THEM to > vote too! > > Link for voting: > http://www.aroundrr.com/SaveOurHistory > > James Cemetery website: > http://coyan.net/JamesCemeteryindex.html > > Anthony Coyan > Secretary, Jackson County Chapter - Ohio Genealogical Society > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALACKAW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >