-----Original Message----- From: PMiller864@aol.com <PMiller864@aol.com> To: CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com <CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Civil War battlefield >This was taken from OHIO FOOTSTEPS Mailing List and I thought some of you >might be interested in this. >Norma > >Saw this in the Sidney Ohio newspaper and thought it worth mentioning. Sorry >it is so long but please read it in its entirety: > >Ohio's only Civil War battlefield (and only one of three on Northern soil) is >about to be destroyed at the hands of a sand and gravel company. Buffington >Island Battlefield is largely owned by the Shelley Materials of Thornville, >Ohio, and company has filed and received permits to operate a gravel pit on >the battlefield because Ohio has no historic preservation laws. The battle >saved the North from further invasions when 8000 Union soldiers stopped 2200 >Confederate raiders after doing huge damage across Ohio. It is the only >battlefield where two future presidents - Hayes & McKinley -- participated. >Between 54 and 105 US soldiers are buried in an unmarked, unlocated grave on >the battlefield. Despite the fact that technology exists to locate these >veterans, neither the gravel company nor the state of Ohio will do so. > Currently, Ohio law does not recognize human remains after 125 years of >burial, so these soliders do not count in the eyes of the state. >If more info is needed contact John Rawdon, 3471 Ellen Drive, Akron, Ohio or >Margaret Parker, president, Meigs County Pioneer & Historical Society, PO Box >145, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769. > >Email addresses: >meigscountyhistoricalsociety@dragonbbs.com >kdashley2@hotmail.com (Keith Ashley) > >Please visit the petition to save the battlefield at >http://www.petitiononline.com/Buff/petition.html. > >Also visit the Saving Buffington island Web Site at >http://www.geocities.com/buffington_isle/. > >Thanks! > > > >--------- > >Prayer-and-Praises@onelist.com >CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Falls/7965/cemlistp.htm > > >==== CEMETERY Mailing List ==== > This list is for Cemetery RESTORATION and PRESERVATION > NOT a surname search list > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >