If there are any residents of Virginia who are concerned about this cemetery, you might try contacting your State legislators to see if they can help with this. They may not care much about someone living in another state (unless they have a particular interest in genealogy or local history!), but they do like to please their local constituents! Janet At 10:15 AM 3/22/2005 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 3/22/2005 7:11:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > Why not go to Richmond with this problem as well? The state might have > > more clout. > > > >Who does one go to in Richmond, VA? > >Brenda Reed > > >==== VALEE Mailing List ==== >Need to reach Yvonne, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at ><[email protected]>. > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Janet Zengel Messer Micanopy, Florida
This is a good reminder for families who own land with old cemeteries on them. I have copy of a deed in Bourbon Co KS where my great-grandmother deeded her farm to her daughter, "with the exception of the cemetery". Then when the daughter deeded the farm to someone else she didn't put that exception in the deed, and the farmer tore down the good woven wire fence with a gate to protect the cemetery and let his cows rub against the stones and break them down. He didn't try to keep the family from coming in, and they kept finding stones where he had thrown them down the hill and used them as rip rap on the banks of Mill Creek. They found the broken stone for the Great-Grandfather who had died in 1866 and brought it back up the hill and propped it against a tree, where the owner then left it. Since then they have had it moved to a cemetery. It might be well if someone local would check the deed records and see whether there was an earlier deed that stated "with the exception of the cemetery". I believe even if a later deed didn't show that exception that it would still be a legal exception. Marian