I am a new member of the WARE list. As I have no WARE/WEIR ancestors, my reason for joining this list was to see if there are any descendants of the WEIRs from Clark County, Indiana on this list. I am the President of the Clark County Cemetery Preservation Committee. Our website is at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5881. A subpage of that site is the WEIR Cemetery page at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5881/weircem.html This cemetery is in pathetic condition and we are trying to find descendants of this line who will take the time to write a brief letter to: William E. Stewart Union Township Trustee 14213 Highway 31 Memphis, Tennessee 47143 and encourage Mr. Stewart in the nicest possible way to keep his promise to clean up WEIR Cemetery. I first visited this site in May of 1997. In June 1997, Mr. Stewart assured me that he WOULD get this cemetery cleaned up. I have made it a point to drive by WEIR Cemetery several times a year since then and it has NEVER been touched. I advised Mr. Stewart and the other 11 Township Trustees in this County last year of the services available from the Clark County Community Service Corps in the form of "community service" probationers to do FREE labor, such as weedeating and cutting out trees. Apparently Mr. Stewart has never availed himself of this or any similar resource. I was there this afternoon (6/28/98) and WEIR Cemetery is in far worse condition that it was in June of last year. The weeds are 4-5 feet high. It is impossible to get into the cemetery because of the chest-high wall of weeds. Mr. Stewart assured me last year that he has a budget amount set aside for "cemetery maintenance" of abandoned cemeteries in his township (those without associations to maintain them) and that WEIR Cemetery is the ONLY cemetery in his township for which he is responsible. He promised that it would be attended to. This has simply not been done. If you are a descendant of one or more of the families buried at this site (see the online index on the website noted above), please contact Mr. Stewart at your first opportunity to urge him to clean up WEIR Cemetery. Thank you for your time. Lois Mauk Jeffersonville, Indiana - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Clark County, Indiana Cemeteries Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5881 Next CCCPC Meeting: Saturday, July 11, 2 PM at Pleasant View Baptist Church, Highway 62, New Washington Next McClintick/Sylvester Cemetery workday: Friday, July 3rd -----------------------------------------------------------------