This came off one of our state pages. I thought it was interesting...look at it from both points...Mari >X-Originating-IP: [66.43.18.27] >Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:42:32 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sat Feb 19 14:42:32 2005 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Sophos http://www.messagepartners.com >X-Scanned-By: This message was scanned by MPP v.2 (www.messagepartners.com) >From: "ATK's Grannie" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:42:07 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 >X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/170 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >Subject: [OLD-SOUTH-BURIALS] Hendersonville Cemetery Is Desecrated (The >headstones date back to the 1800's belonging to the Corn family) > > >I know this is not a Georgia Cemetery, but, thought you might forward this >to someone that lives in North Carolina. > >Friday, February 18, 2005 >Hendersonville Cemetery Is Desecrated > >http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=2971573 > >What may look like a pile of rocks in a ditch are actually over thirty >headstones. Norman Miller marks and locates Confederate and Union soldiers >grave sites and he is outraged not only because preserving history is his >passion but desecrating a cemetery is against the law. > >Miller says, "They wanted to be buried here evidently and I don't know who >has the right to say I own the property now and you're gonna be burried in >the ditch. I don't see who has the right." > >Fox Carolina called landowner Robert Glaspy several times but he didn't >return any of our calls. Apparently he told Norman Miller he bulldozed the >headstones to make way for an empty trailer and septic system and the city >was not made aware that the area was a cemetery. > >Adding insult to injury, we noticed that what appears to be a headstone is >being used to cover the top of the septic tank. > >The headstones date back to the 1800's belonging to the Corn family. All of >this information plus where every cemetery is located is documented in a >state issued survey book. The survey conducted in 1993 clearly states this >open field was once a cemetery. > >Norman Miller told Fox, "If you do enough cemetery research and examine >enough like I do, it's not a pile of rocks." > >He also added that they had about six to seven testimonials from people that >said people from the area remember the field being a cemetery encased with a >gate. > >Miller has also gone to the authorities such as the sheriff's department. We >called the sheriff's department who says that are investigating this as a >crime. > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 2/18/05 > > >==== OLD-SOUTH-BURIALS Mailing List ==== >This list is freely provided by RootsWeb. >Please do not post your personal cemetery queries here. >For full list rules, please visit this page: >http://www.tngenweb.org/darkside/mail-list.html > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx