In a message dated 01-02-14 21:40:21 EST, you write: << There is a small WARE family cemetery on Indian Creek. >> I guess the only advice I can give is practical and not legal. I suspect that a family cemetary continues to belong to the family and probably descends to the heirs at law, maybe to the testate devisees. Whoever has the adjoining land has probably taken it subject to a reserved right in the family as to the cemetary. After some time, one will have a hard time identifying the true owners as the interests will be very fractionalized. In short, if you can show your link to the persons buried there, you have probably established more right to being on the land than any one else can at the present time. If you were to put a suitable stone in the plot, who would complain (especialy if you do so politely)? Now, if I may, some questions for you. 1. Who are these Wares? I descend from Sarah Ware (born 1765) who married John Smith. Her home is put as "Mt. Moriah Church" which is just South of Indian Creek. I copy the part of the Ware tree that I know below. If this plot is of this Ware family, I'd love to know the location. 2. Do you know of any other family cemetaries in this area of Amherst? I search for the Sandidge burying ground in particular. I am also interested in finding the Lee cemetary on the East slope of Tobacco Row Mountain, near Hicks' Store. Title to that plot was in fact reserved to the grantor in a deed conveying the associated land when it was sold in the late 1800's (so I should be able to find it with a title search but am being lazy at the moment). Thanks. Sandy Rowe Descendants of Edward Ware 1 Edward Ware b: Bef. 1710 in Caroline County, VA d: Bef. July 03, 1786 in Lexington Parrish, Amherst County, Virginia .. +Letitia Powell b: 1712 d: Aft. 1779 in Amherst County, VA m: in Caroline County, VA. Father: Thomas Powell, Jr. Mother: Mary Gibson .. 2 Sarah "Sally" Ware b: 1765 in Mount Moriah Church, Amherst County, Virginia ...... +John Smith b: Bet. 1760 - 1765 d: Bef. December 17, 1821 in Amherst County, Virginia m: December 05, 1785 in Amherst County, Virginia Father: Jacob Smith Mother: Millicent Powell ....... 3 Malinda "Balinda" Smith b: 1796 in Virginia d: May 30, 1883 in Amherst County, Virginia ........... +Captain Dudley Sandidge b: February 28, 1786 in Virginia d: December 16, 1860 in Amherst County, Virginia m: October 26, 1818 in Amherst County, Virginia Father: William Sandidge V Mother: Tamasin Higginbotham ....... 3 Nancy Smith b: Abt. 1792 d: in Amherst County, Virginia ........... +Dabney Sandidge b: 1788 in Amherst County, Virginia d: Aft. October 03, 1850 in Amherst County, Virginia m: July 21, 1828 Father: William Sandidge V Mother: Tamasin Higginbotham ....... 3 Polly Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ........... +George Myers b: Bet. 1775 - 1805 ....... 3 Betsy Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 Jacob Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ........... +Jennie Avis Moss b: Bet. 1785 - 1815 ....... 3 William Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 James Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 John Smith, Jr. b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 Edward Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 Richard P. Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 d: January 21, 1851 ........... +Mary Tucker b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ....... 3 Sallie Smith b: Bet. 1785 - 1805 ........... +Charles Tucker II b: Bet. 1770 - 1800 Father: Charles Tucker I Mother: Unknown Thompkins .. 2 James Ware b: November 19, 1745 in Virginia ...... +Mary Veal b: Bet. 1740 - 1755 Father: Carnaby Veal .. 2 William Powell Ware b: 1752 in Virginia ...... +Patty Davis b: Bet. 1750 - 1760 in Virginia .. 2 John Powell Ware b: 1758 in Virginia ...... +Lucy Eubanks b: Bet. 1755 - 1765 in Virginia .. 2 Sgt. Edward Ware, Jr. b: September 18, 1760 in Virginia ...... +Sarah Thurmond b: Bet. 1755 - 1770 in Virginia ....... 3 Henry Ware d: Abt. 1822 in Mississippi ........... +Melinda Strickland .. 2 Elizabeth Ware b: 1750 ...... +Josiah Jopling b: Bet. 1740 - 1770 .. 2 Anne Ware b: 1754 in Virginia ...... +Patrick Campell b: Bet. 1745 - 1755 in Virginia .. 2 Mark Ware b: Abt. 1744 .. 2 Tabitha Ware b: 1756 in Virginia ...... +William Parks b: Bet. 1750 - 1760 in Virginia