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

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 > --