Hi, I don't know what to say. I guess I am naive even at my age, but I thought that family members were to be notified about disturbing any graves. I was raised in Marshall county, Springplace, but I have lived here in Atlanta since 1961. When a large shopping center was built here (one of many now) years ago, there was a small cemetery on the hillside. As I remember, the families could not be found so the cemetery was left, about 20 or so feet in the air surrounding by a granite retaining wall that was necessary after the entire hill was scraped down to nothing and an iron fence surrounding the graves. Access is buy stairs leading upward. Yet another subdivision was built on a very old forgotten cemetary. I believe that the homes were left as they are. I am so sorry to hear that nothing was done for your family. My daddy often showed me a group of small trees where he said some of his people were buried. The woman who owned the land had the stone dragged to a gulley and the graves plowed over. She gained about 100 sq. feet of land. Sincerely Patricia Caneer Gardner ( Marshall county is still home) FREEMAN, DWYER, CANEER. ----- Original Message ----- From: Teresa Ghee Elliott <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:44 PM Subject: RE: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > Bonnie, > The death certificate will tell the cemetery. My great Grandmother is > buried in Thurston Cemetery. (now under the road, since she was beside the > road in an unmarked grave, and the road has now been widened.) > > Teresa Ghee Elliott > I'm getting organized this year. Join me in August. > For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org > For TMG sentences > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html> > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bonnie. White [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > > I am interested in locating the gravesite of Fannie HAYES COLEMAN. She died > in the mid 1920's. I think. Also, would like to locate the gravesite of > William R. COLEMAN, her husband, who died in 1945, from what I have been > told. They may be in the Coleman Cemetery without a marker, but if so, how > can we find out? The last time we were there, we did have any luck. Would it > be better to get their death certificates? Who has the list of the people > buried there, not just the ones with markers? > Thanks - > Bonnie White > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > For cemetery records of Rutherford County, TN check out Teresa Elliott's > page at www.rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org or Kim Denny's page at > http://www.kimshockey.com/cem/rutherford.html > > > > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > Welcome to TNRUTHER-L: This is the official Rootsweb mailing list for Rutherford County, TN. Anyone is welcome to post queries, and questions about Rutherford County, TN Genealogy. > >
No, the family doesn't have to be notified, UNLESS there is a contact listed on the cemetery gate. Think about it. As a qualified genealogist, you don't know all the descendants of your great grandfather, so why would you expect a housing contractor to know. Often they will post a notice in the newspaper. Since it is the responsibility of the contractor to not only move the graves, but pay for it, they often will just leave the cemetery. But unmarked graves often get overlooked, like my great grandmothers. Her own children aren't sure exactly where she was buried, (just by the road) so we counldn't very well expect a contractor too. Teresa Ghee Elliott I'm getting organized this year. Join me in August. For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org For TMG sentences <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html> -----Original Message----- From: patricia gardner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN Hi, I don't know what to say. I guess I am naive even at my age, but I thought that family members were to be notified about disturbing any graves. I was raised in Marshall county, Springplace, but I have lived here in Atlanta since 1961. When a large shopping center was built here (one of many now) years ago, there was a small cemetery on the hillside. As I remember, the families could not be found so the cemetery was left, about 20 or so feet in the air surrounding by a granite retaining wall that was necessary after the entire hill was scraped down to nothing and an iron fence surrounding the graves. Access is buy stairs leading upward. Yet another subdivision was built on a very old forgotten cemetary. I believe that the homes were left as they are. I am so sorry to hear that nothing was done for your family. My daddy often showed me a group of small trees where he said some of his people were buried. The woman who owned the land had the stone dragged to a gulley and the graves plowed over. She gained about 100 sq. feet of land. Sincerely Patricia Caneer Gardner ( Marshall county is still home) FREEMAN, DWYER, CANEER. ----- Original Message ----- From: Teresa Ghee Elliott <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:44 PM Subject: RE: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > Bonnie, > The death certificate will tell the cemetery. My great Grandmother is > buried in Thurston Cemetery. (now under the road, since she was beside the > road in an unmarked grave, and the road has now been widened.) > > Teresa Ghee Elliott > I'm getting organized this year. Join me in August. > For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org > For TMG sentences > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html> > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bonnie. White [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > > I am interested in locating the gravesite of Fannie HAYES COLEMAN. She died > in the mid 1920's. I think. Also, would like to locate the gravesite of > William R. COLEMAN, her husband, who died in 1945, from what I have been > told. They may be in the Coleman Cemetery without a marker, but if so, how > can we find out? The last time we were there, we did have any luck. Would it > be better to get their death certificates? Who has the list of the people > buried there, not just the ones with markers? > Thanks - > Bonnie White > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > For cemetery records of Rutherford County, TN check out Teresa Elliott's > page at www.rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org or Kim Denny's page at > http://www.kimshockey.com/cem/rutherford.html > > > > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > Welcome to TNRUTHER-L: This is the official Rootsweb mailing list for Rutherford County, TN. Anyone is welcome to post queries, and questions about Rutherford County, TN Genealogy. > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== TSLA has the Rock Spring Church of Christ Records. Rutherford County, 1835-1860. Roll 170 Microfilm Only Collection. Records of Rock Spring Church, consisting of membership lists, genealogical data on members, and financial and meeting records, 1843-60, for this church which is located near Smyrna. Contact TSLA for more information.
They sometimes aren't that nice up here. I know of two cemeteries that were just wrecked to build new homes. Also the Pitt (I think) Cemetery out by the VA Hospital in M'boro...They did leave a small fenced in cemetery but I'm told they left graves under the homes. Not sure I'd want to live there... Mari At 11:48 PM 8/22/2004, you wrote: >Hi, I don't know what to say. I guess I am naive even at my age, but I >thought that family members were to be notified about disturbing any graves. >I was raised in Marshall county, Springplace, but I have lived here in >Atlanta since 1961. When a large shopping center was built here (one of >many now) years ago, there was a small cemetery on the hillside. As I >remember, the families could not be found so the cemetery was left, about 20 >or so feet in the air surrounding by a granite retaining wall that was >necessary after the entire hill was scraped down to nothing and an iron >fence surrounding the graves. Access is buy stairs leading upward. Yet >another subdivision was built on a very old forgotten cemetary. I believe >that the homes were left as they are. I am so sorry to hear that nothing >was done for your family. My daddy often showed me a group of small trees >where he said some of his people were buried. The woman who owned the land >had the stone dragged to a gulley and the graves plowed over. She gained >about 100 sq. feet of land. Sincerely Patricia Caneer Gardner ( Marshall >county is still home) FREEMAN, DWYER, CANEER. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Teresa Ghee Elliott <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:44 PM >Subject: RE: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > > > > Bonnie, > > The death certificate will tell the cemetery. My great Grandmother is > > buried in Thurston Cemetery. (now under the road, since she was beside >the > > road in an unmarked grave, and the road has now been widened.) > > > > Teresa Ghee Elliott > > I'm getting organized this year. Join me in August. > > For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org > > For TMG sentences > > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html> > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bonnie. White [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:10 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [TNRUTHER] Locating Gravesites - COLEMAN > > > > I am interested in locating the gravesite of Fannie HAYES COLEMAN. She >died > > in the mid 1920's. I think. Also, would like to locate the gravesite of > > William R. COLEMAN, her husband, who died in 1945, from what I have been > > told. They may be in the Coleman Cemetery without a marker, but if so, >how > > can we find out? The last time we were there, we did have any luck. Would >it > > be better to get their death certificates? Who has the list of the people > > buried there, not just the ones with markers? > > Thanks - > > Bonnie White > > > > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > > For cemetery records of Rutherford County, TN check out Teresa Elliott's > > page at www.rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org or Kim Denny's page at > > http://www.kimshockey.com/cem/rutherford.html > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== > > Welcome to TNRUTHER-L: This is the official Rootsweb mailing list for >Rutherford County, TN. Anyone is welcome to post queries, and questions >about Rutherford County, TN Genealogy. > > > > > > >==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== >TSLA has the Rock Spring Church of Christ Records. Rutherford County, >1835-1860. Roll 170 Microfilm Only Collection. Records of Rock Spring >Church, consisting of membership lists, genealogical data on members, and >financial and meeting records, 1843-60, for this church which is located >near Smyrna. >Contact TSLA for more information.