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This was posted on the state PCRP board from our state assistant
coordinator. I am also checking into cemetery laws from other states
that have been forwarded on to me....Thanks for everyone's support and
writing of letters!!!
Randy Klemme
Franklin County Genealogy and PCRP Coordinator
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From: Lois Mauk <LawOfficeInformationSystem(a)worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Bob Hill's Column in 8/25/98 C-J
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If you are in the Louisville area, columnist Bob Hill ran a prominent column
in this morning's Courier-Journal concerning Donnie Loweth's fight to save
his family's cemetery on Blackiston Mill Road. (I've asked the C-J
webmaster to add Bob's column to the stories on the C-J webpage at
http://www.courier-journal.com.)
For reasons that I fully understand, Bob Hill had to tone down his article,
lest he and the paper risk being sued by the property owners. He couldn't
say that they had paved over two-thirds of this cemetery and that about half
of the shopping center's parking lot is over graves. Though we have the
survey evidence and circa 1923 photos of the cemetery showing dozens of
stones in the now-blacktopped portion of the cemetery, the fact remains
that, under current Indiana law, the property owners can get away with this!
IT'S LEGAL!!! The real story here is the insensitivity of our lawmakers in
making this possible.
Write letters today to your Legislators, especially Rep. Markt L. Lytle (D)
of Madison, a funeral director who may be sympathetic to this cause. The
Indiana State Legislators' e-mail and mailing addresses are available at:
http://www.state.in.us/cgi-bin/legislative/legislator_list.cgi
If you haven't read Bill Shaw's Sunday 8/23/98 "Death of a Cemetery"
article
in the Indianapolis Star, see
http://www.starnews.com/news/citystate/98/aug/0822SN_rhoads.html for the
full devastating article and photo.
I'm asking you to take a minute to write a concise, heartfelt letter to the
Editor of the Courier-Journal pleading for overhaul of the statutes that
make this sort of thing possible.
It's only by reinforcing and bolstering the public's awareness of the
devastating impact of current law on pioneer cemeteries in this state and
others that we can perhaps pluck the heartstrings of the legislators who
make this sort of thing possible.
The other sad side of this story is that it is happening all over Indiana
and everywhere in the country. Unless there is a great grassroots
consciousness-raising effort, nothing will change.
The e-mail address for the Editorial Department is:
cjletter(a)louisv02.gannett.com
The snail-mail address is:
Readers' Forum
The Courier-Journal
P.O. Box 740031
Louisville, Kentucky 40201-7431
The fax number is:
(502) 582-4290
Be sure to include your full address and telephone number or else they will
not print your letter, though your street address will not be published.
Lois
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