Dan, in the case where it was a known person, they wrote on that they moved a Wooden casket, metal casket, or vault. In the unknown person, it doesn't say what they moved. If it wasn't for the fact that I had been to the Crews cemetery and seen the markers that marked with numbers, to show the unknown graves, by the paperwork, I would had said that these had not been moved. They gave no information on them at all. except in the case of where there was field rocks and some of those had dates and no names, they put that infomation in the paperwork. The oldest known grave was W. Crawford that died was 1819 and I just notice that they did put down what they moved in his case, so you might be right. In his case there was no next of kin listed, just unknown, and no grave removal permit requested. So you might be right that is problem what happen in the case of the unknown. becasue on all the unknow, no grave removal permit was requested either. That would explain that. Do you know anything about were Gatliff's Bottoms was on New River. I had Gatliff marry into my Wiley family. My William Wiley married Keren-Happuch Gatliff the daughter of James Gatliff and Martha Pin. in Greenbrier County on 24 May 1784, but I don't know actually were they were settled at. or her parents were settled. So Gatliff's Bottoms would be along New River. I know where where Crumps Bottoms is and a lot of my descends settled in that are. Could that be a likely location for Gatliff Bottoms? Sandy Moten Cocoa, Florida > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Smith [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WVMERCER] Bluestone Reservoir Project CemeterRelo fact > > I also read that many of the graves were very old and almost completely > decomposed, so in those cases they moved only a small amount of dirt from > the grave (sort of symbolic I guess). > Dan > [email protected] > > > ==== WVMERCER Mailing List ==== > MESSAGE HINT: Before replying to any message, > take time to delete all unnecesssary material. > DELETE: Taglines, empty lines, greetings, etc.