A few years back, my family visited the Jarrell cemetery at Stark. It is located on the Luarel Fork of Spruce.Strip mining was going on, and a guard stopped them. My wife told the guard we were visiting as relatives. He said: " go ahead, I cant stop you even if I wished; the law allows visitation at all cemeterys" Shelby

Hi Shelby They were lucky. The coal companies are using the toxic stuff that is a side effect of MTR to stop people from going to some cemeteries. Such a sad thing. Gracie ----- Original Message ----- From: <BurgessWV@aol.com> To: <WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Sorry, but MTR again. > A few years back, my family visited the Jarrell cemetery at Stark. It is > located on the Luarel Fork of Spruce.Strip mining was going on, and a guard > stopped them. My wife told the guard we were visiting as relatives. He said: " go > ahead, I cant stop you even if I wished; the law allows visitation at all > cemeterys" > > Shelby > > > ============================== > 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 >