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The problem here is the the five little words buried about half way through in the law which says "other than private burial grounds." I am attaching a copy of an email that I sent to the governor and about 4 or 5 more individuals.
In today's (August 3, 2001) Elmira Star Gazette is an article by Sara Bonisteel about the old cemeteries in Schuyler county, in particular the one at Cayutaville. If nothing else this raises the question of what do the registered voters and residents of New York need to do to get this situation clarified. Are we really as a society when we talk about World War II (as the war that we have until recently so under recognized the veterans of it, and those who did give the supreme sacrifice), Korea, Viet Nam, or even the Gulf War going to find in another 25 years that the graves of these men and women have been abandoned, just because they are buried in a cemetery that is not a national cemetery? How many of you want to tell your husbands, wives, parents and grandparents that it was alright for them to go off to war and fight for this county, but when it comes to providing them a appropriate hollowed ground for them to be buried in that if they are buried in a cemetery that!
is a family, religious, municipal or private cemetery that it can not be assured. Actually I made one mistake with the information that I gave the reporter, I said it was my father grandfather it was actually his great grandfather (James Charles-War of 1812). We are constantly talking about teaching the youth of today to "honor" themselves and in the process their ancestors, what better way to do so than to assist in cleaning up the graves of individuals even those who are not their direct ancestors. Yes, I admit it, I grew up in the military and one of the things that I was always taught, was that you cannot celebrate July 4th until you honor those who died in the service of their country on Memorial Day. Please, please lets get some lawyers, elected officials and others to start to take action to clarify this situation and meanwhile could those of you living in New York state please start to clean up these old "abandoned" cemeteries. I have talked with the people i!
n the state office of cemeteries and they are saying that they do not have to do anything. I want the law changed
In today's Elmira Star Gazattte is an article by Sara Bonisteel about the old cemeteries in Schuyler county, in particular the one at Cayuataville. If nothing else this raises the question of what do the registered voters and residents of New York need to do to get this situation clarified. Are we really as a society when we talk about World War II (as the war that we have until recently so under recognized the veternas of it, and those who did give the supreme sacrifice) going to find in another 25 years that the graves of these men and women have been abandoned, just because they are buried in a cemetery that is not a national cemetery? Actually I made one mistake with the information that I gave the reporter, I said it was my father grandfather it was actually his great grandfather (James Charles-War of 1812). We are constantly talking about teaching the youth of today to "honor" themselves and in the process their ancestors, what better way to do so than to assist i!
n cleaning up the graves of individuals even those who are not their direct ancestors. Yes, I admit it, I grew up in the military and one of the things that I was always taught, was that you cannot celebrate July 4th until honor those who died in the service of their country on Memorial Day. Please, please lets get some lawyers, elected officals and others to start to take action to clarify this situation and meanwhile could those of you living in New York state please start to clean up these old "abondaned" cemeteries.
My ancestor is JOSEPH CHARLES b.1800-1810, married to MARIAH BARNETT b. abt.1817. Parents of:
B. FRANKLIN (FRANK) CHARLES b1854 KY, m.(1)NANCY TOWNSEND (2)LUCILLE HOWELL. I think B. FRANKLIN CHARLES & NANCY TOWNSEND were parents of:
WILLIAM JOSEPH CHARLES b.10 SEPT 1877, m.NANNIE OR NANNA BELLE WASSON b. 11 NOV 1885-86? were parents of:
FRANK CHARLES b. 5 OCT 1916, m. LENORE EMERICH b.13 FEB 1924
I would like to find more information on NANCY TOWNSEND'S family. Also I am not able to get a generation back on JOSEPH CHARLES' parents. I think Joseph was born in KY, and died in
Estill CO, KY. after 1880. Oral history claims that one of the CHARLES males several generations back was married to a Native American woman (perhaps Cherokee). But I'm not sure were that fits in. Also through oral history heard that two CHARLES brothers came to America from France. Does any of this info sound familiar to anyone?
Also would like a lead so I am able to research farther back in Mariah Barnett's (wife of Joseph Charles) family.
Thanks to anyone who can give me information, any tidbit will be appreciated.
Gale Charles Demlow
gldemlow(a)antigopro.net
To all of those Charles list members I am now back in New Mexico and it would be real helpful if you could past and copy your request to me now. My laptop at times has a mind of its own.