I live in a rural village. Our township supervisors spend money to mow and maintain old church and family cemeteries located in the township. We are fortunate. It is not the case in some surrounding areas. Students from the college and boy scouts sometimes take on the clearing of a cemetery as their project, but that is usually a one time affair and within a few years it is overgrown again. I do believe that it is the responsibility of the governing body to take over the care of these abandoned resting places. I know property owners who still care for graves located on their properties for people to whom they they are not related. And thanks to genealogy a family who found the resting place of their ancestors fully restored the plot and maintain it in an adjacent town. Nancy