Thank you. Frances ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hawkins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: [GRAYSON] Federal Protection Cemetery Petition > As you know in the past months we have discussed the awful condition of > this or that cemetery in these counties. Terrible conditions and > treatment of cemeteries has left me speechless at times while I read the > stones and try to figure out even how big a cemetery used to be by the > debris . > Very few times has anyone come to rescue a cemetery. Coontown > Cemetery Association is one of the few lately and they are going to have > to fight an uphill battle to protect it from further damage. > Texas does not protect its cemeteries . They have passed a few laws > but the local law enforcment do not respond. I have been at a cemetery > with serious damage to one of those fancy above ground vaults where > someone had taken a truck on top of other tombstones and used it to > chain and yank the doors off the vault after removing the hinges. The > sheriffs dept took hours to repond and then were actually scared to look > inside the vault! All they did is scribble notes and leave as fast as > possible . Nothing was done. In that same week someone tore into the > same type of vault in Greenville texas that made the news because the > thieves were after the bones of the dead! > Fannin county Sheriffs do not repond, cemetery damage is the lowest > priority. > Please consider signing the petition! > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sg0001/petition.html > Susan Hawkins > There is a new movement afoot to make damaging a cemetery a federal > offense and to give protection . > > > ==== TXGRAYSO Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2000 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: [email protected] http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe Requests: [email protected] >