HHEEYYY!!!! Your daughter could use the cookbook as a fundraiser for the cemetery!!!!!!!!!! What a great opportunity!! and to make a before and after notebook for her class.... Do you know what the state laws are concerning cemeteries, in IL there are laws that if the cemetery is abandoned than some state or county organization provides maintenance, of course they are not going to offer unless someone asks. I would start with calling the town "city planner" I recently called 3 citys in MO concerning some local cemeteries and each city transferred me to the "city planner" to get cemetery info.... Good luck and I took forward to reading your updates. Linda in MO (who wants to visit Greene County in the fall!!) on 7/11/03 9:19 PM, ReynoldsWrites2@aol.com at ReynoldsWrites2@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4225.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Thanks for the information. I did have it. > There's something far more important than your daughter's > recipe project that needs the attention of Malone descendents. It is the > Malone Graveyard in Greene Co. TN > which used to be on Casteel farm which has now been sold > to a Weems family. I was in Greeneville last summer and > wanted to find John Malone's grave and a Casteel gal took > me to the farm. On top of a hill in the middle of a pasture > was an overgrown patch of bushes, trees, thorns and no > visible grave markers of any kind. You can't even walk into > the cemetery. The Casteel gal told me that some years ago > she begged for money from descendents of those buried > there and managed to collect $1000 and she sent me pic- > tures of the new barbed wire fence and new gate she put up, > but it had fallen down and cattle had been getting in. > > Malone descendents need to organize and raise money to > put an iron fence around the cemetery which is where John > Malone Sr. and John Malone Jr. are buried and many other > Malones and Reynolds, and other relatives. I live in Illinois > on a fixed income so I cannot help. I'm told that since the > Malones and others buried there were in the Revolutionary > War and the Civil War, that they are entitled to special > grave markers, but as of last summer no graves could be > seen. > > Could your daughter make this her project instead of recipes? > And have an American flag fly there also? > > ==== TNGREENE Mailing List ==== > TNGenWeb's Project for Greene Co > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngreene > >