Some lines end and there is no one left to maintain their graves. g On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Fawn <wind@wildblue.net> wrote: > It is a shame when we forget our Ancestors resting places. I am glad to > know > that there are people that does not forget. > Maybe we could help in our areas where we live..and make it better. > fawn > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gail Kilgore > To: tttp@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Historic Mount Hope Cemetery losing hope [Akron, Ohio] > > > In Leadville, there was one man who donated all his time and cleaned the > cemetery. We are talking about 10 acres and he did it all on his own. He > placed broken stones near the place they broke. He cleaned pine cones, > needles, tree limbs, garbage and worked his backside off and the county > crews took the stuff to the dump. Today you can walk around the cemetery > and not kill yourself or fall into sunken graves. > > John was a miracle worker for Leadville. > > g > > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Fawn <wind@wildblue.net> wrote: > > > Historic Mount Hope Cemetery losing hope [Akron, Ohio] > > > > > > By Bob Dyer > > Beacon Journal columnist > > > > People die. > > > > Sometimes their cemeteries do, too. > > > > Bob Heilman is "working my butt off out here" trying to prevent > > 146-year-old > > Mount Hope Cemetery in South Akron from going the way of Atlantis. > > > > But it's a struggle, and he's short on money, and his equipment is old > and > > broken, and often he feels the same way. > > > > When I visited the place last week - at the urging of a reader who had > been > > researching his family tree and was appalled at the conditions he > > discovered > > - about 75 percent of Mount Hope's 8 acres were overgrown with grass and > > weeds. Some of the weeds were 2 feet high. > > > > To continue the story, go to: > > http://alturl.com/6hgjg > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > --