following is a letter about the pioneer cemetries in Indiana. More will
follow. READ and be AWARE of what is happening to our forefathers and
foremothers graves.
>Several milestones were met today (1/23/99):
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>(1) We now have ONE HUNDRED members of the INPCRP e-mail discussion group.
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>(2) We have received a total of SIX HUNDRED AND FOUR petition signatures
>urging the Indiana General Assembly to act decisively to protect our
>endangered pioneer cemeteries. I am advised that more are on the way and
>that's super!
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>(3) We now have ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR examples of cemetery neglect, abuse and
>endangerment in our INPCRP "Hall of Shame". If you haven't visited it
or
>haven't visited in the last week or so, I urge you to do so. There are
>still a number of counties for which we do not have examples of cemetery
>that have been neglected, abused and abandoned. If you know of any that are
>not on the list, please let us know.
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>I am SOOOOO proud of all of you who have participated in this effort. Thank
>you, thank you, thank you!
>
>If you are still holding on to petitions, I urge you to send them in right
>away. As of this writing, to our knowledge, none of the seven "cemetery
>preservation" bills presently pending before the 1999 General Assembly are
>presently scheduled for Committee hearings. Once we are granted permission
>to appear before the respective Committees, we will high-tail it to
>Indianapolis and it's important that we have as many petition signatures in
>our hands as possible when we make that appearance. I don't expect we'll
>get more than one shot.
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>Again, thank you to all of you who have participated by signing petitions or
>giving us information about shameful examples of cemetery abandonment,
>neglect and abuse in the State of Indiana.
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>Further information is available on the INPCRP website at:
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp
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>Lois Mauk
>INPCRP State Coordinator
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>Have you signed an Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project
>PETITION TO THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE calling for revision of current
>state laws regarding protection and maintenance of pioneer cemeteries?
> See
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp
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