You are fooling yourself if you really believe that the state of Indiana
would not allow graves to be desecrated. All one has to do is look around.
Up until summer of last year, it was legal in Indiana for a landowner to
bulldoze gravemarkers on his land and plant crops on the graves. Indiana
has not been a state that cares about the graves of our ancestors. And it
is SO much easier to mow without those darn grave markers in the way!
Do you have any idea of what was done with the remains from the small
cemetery (Young family)? I do. My brother, who was working at the state
hospital at the time, witnessed the disinterrment. Oh, the DNR workers
were careful allright, under the aid of the Purdue archaelogical dept.
They didn't want to destroy any "specimans"!
Now if you or I were in charge, we would respectfully re-inter the remains
immediately. But that is not what happens in these cases. The remains are
taken to a laboratory where archaeologists and students can examine them
and disassemble the skeleton and study the bone density and take
photographs, so they can show them in a slide show! (which Rebecca and I
viewed, by the way.) Then after at least 2 to 3 years the remains are
placed in a box not much larger than a shoebox and reinterred without
ceremony.
Rest in Peace.....HA!
Debby
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At 07:00 PM 02/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Re: the gravemarkers from St. John's Cemetary; they weren't
pushed over
the side of the riverbank; the only ones that are there are ones the
families have paid for. The rest are marked with numbered markers or
are unmarked. The state would never allow the graves to be desecrated
like that; there would be legal problems out the wazoo if they did. The
smaller graveyard was moved almost 5 years ago to the larger one when
the DOC took over the building that they were buried beside. I know
this, because I work for the DOC and slip-slid all over that part of the
hill when I did walking patrol for almost a year when it got wet because
the DOC never planted any grass to replace it. I fell so many times on
that hill that they named it after me!
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