Hi Lyn: Bless you (and the others) for trying to save this cemetery! Don't know what the laws are there BUT here in Oregon (and we have only been a state since 1859) We have VERY STRONG LAWS on GRAVE DESECRATION...This applies to graves even if the bodies ARE NOT identified! With that many graves, my Lord, it could have been a WHOLE COMMUNITY! In our small town we have what is known as "Old Pioneer Cemetery" and no one has been buried there in probably fifty years or more....and this little resting place is IN PRIME OCEAN VIEW location.....A few years back there was a movement afoot to sell the property (it is probably worth millions) and our community as a whole rose up and protested! Maybe that was a good wake-up call for us! Since then maintenance is done on a fairly regular basis by BOY SCOUTS and Historical Society etc....Of course a great many headstones are missing and have deteriorated....BUT on the whole we feel reassured that these early settlers are at least "resting in peace" and no one is "digging them up" in the name of progress! Good luck to you and your fellow "Hanoverians" for caring! Regards Dee -----Original Message----- From: Lyn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] Information regarding the cemetery fiasco at PebbleCreek in Hanover County, VA >Sheri, > >For those of us are no longer living in the area, it is reassuring to >know someone in the area still cares to fight the fight. Thank you so >much for sharing this info. > >Genealogy is more than names & dates. It is recognizing and respecting >the gifts of our forefathers. In the case of Hanover County & >surrounding areas, our forefathers were also the forefathers of our >nation. The gift is the freedom we all enjoy today. Many of us had >forefathers in the area long before the English arrived. > >The road was not without bloodshed, but that is where the foundation was >laid. > >Off my soapbox >Lyn >(List manager) > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >