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The big day.Please read
>
>We left Jeffersonville about 10:30 Monday morning and drove to Indianapolis.
>I wanted to be there earlier than the "appointed" starting time of 2:30 P.M.
>as I feared the general meeting of the House might end earlier than expected
>and that the hearings would be over with before we could get there. SILLY
>ME!!!
>
>We arrived at about 1:15 P.M. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATER, we went into the
>House Chambers (about 5:45).
>
>I must admit that, other than the endless standing on those hard marble
>floors, I really enjoyed the fellowship with so many people who share my
>concerns and interests. In all we had about 15 good-spirited,
>long-suffering people who waited it out with us. But it was WORTH IT!
>
>Our SECRET WEAPON worked BEAUTIFULLY. My friend Donnie Loweth (whose family
>cemetery here in Clark County was blacktopped and turned into a parking
>lot -- graves notwithstanding) took his beautiful 8-year-old daughter Ashley
>out of school for the day and we brought her with us to the Capitol.
>
>When the hearing began, because of the lateness of the hour, Rep. Markt
>Lytle thanks us several times for our fortitude and explained that, rather
>than receiving comments on individual pending bills, the Committee would
>hear brief testimony from anyone wishing to speak about the situation in
>general.
>
>I got up and did my little song-and-dance. Then Rep. Lytle called Ashley.
>Though she was conspicuous as the only child present, I think all of them
>were a bit stunned when she got up to speak. Ashley approached the
>microphone and, in a very clear, calm voice, said:
>
>"Good evening! It makes me very happy and proud to speak before you today,
>but it also saddens me for the reason that I am here.
>
>"My name is Ashley Loweth. I'm 8 years old and I'm in the third grade.
>
>"The reason I am here today is, we write laws every day to protect ourselves
>and our rights. That is great. But what about after we leave this world?
>
>"I am a descendant of the Nathan Hale you may have read about in your
>history books. I have three generations of great-grandparents buried in a
>little lonely cemetery in Clarksville, Indiana. What is sad about this is
>that three-fourths of the cemetery is now under blacktop and the law says,
>'This is okay. As long as the property owner is paying taxes, they can do
>what they want.'
>
>"I don't understand all the laws, but I really don't understand how this one
>got passed.
>
>"How would you feel if your Grandma took you to put flowers on your
>great-grandparents' grave and you were told, 'There they lay, under that
>blacktop!'
>
>"Well, I know that feeling and it hurts! Not only blacktop, but there are
>two pay phones and a utility pole with guide wires going into a grave.
>That's not all. They even have an EPA monitoring device in the middle to
>monitor the ground for their gas pumps."
>
>"I am asking you to please change this law for some day I will want to take
>my children to this very same lonely little cemetery and be able to say,
>'This is where we came from. This is our roots!
>
>"Thank you."
>
>Little Ashley received a standing ovation. I don't believe there was a dry
>eye in the house. She left the Representatives speakless. Rep. Lytle
>jokingly asked, "Does anyone on the committee have any tough questions for
>Ashley?" Of course, there was nothing they could say. She'd said it all.
>
>The rest of us had our opportunity to speak and I'm very proud of each and
>every one of you who toughed it out with us. I don't believe, however, that
>there's much question that little Ashley stole the show and the rest of us
>were just there to lend our support to her plea.
>
>Good night. I'm going to bed! It's not midnight yet and my body will
>probably go into shock if I get more than 4 hours sleep, but I'm willing to
>risk it at this juncture!
>
>Lois
>
>
>
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>
>
>
MORE on the cemetery problems.
>
>Several members of the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project
>(INPCRP) appeared Wednesday afternoon (1/27/99) to testify before the Senate
>Committee on Governmental and Regulatory Affairs, which was discussing two
>cemetery bills (SB 178 and 280).
>
>There will be a hearing before the House of Representatives' Committee on
>Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development on:
> Monday, February 1, 1999 at 3:30 P.M.
> in the House Chambers
> (third floor of the State House; east side)
>
>Additional seating is available in the gallery, accessible from the fourth
>floor.
>
>The House is considering SIX very important cemetery bills, the details of
>which and links to the various sponsoring legislators and the full text of
>the bills can be found on the INPCRP website under "Pending Legislation" at:
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp
>
>If ANY of you are in the Indianapolis area or can be in Indianapolis on
>Monday afternoon, we would dearly love for you to join us there. Since the
>meeting will be in the House Chambers, they should be able to accommodate a
>large turnout. (There were about 40 people crammed into the Committee room
>on Wednesday, though a number of them were present regarding other bills.)
>
>This is a unique opportunity to see our goverment in action and a chance for
>our voices to be heard by the men and women who make our laws.
>
>In my honest opinion, I don't think the Legislators are getting the big
>picture here. I don't think they are in touch with the desperate reality of
>this situation and it's only by showing up in numbers that they are going to
>realize that large numbers of potential voters are watching what happens in
>the State House this year.
>
>Indiana's pioneer family cemeteries (which by some estimates account for 75
>to 90 percent or more of all the burial grounds in the state) have little or
>no laws to protect them. Property owners are permitted to abuse, neglect
>and obliterate these sites pretty much with abandon. There is only minimal
>enforcement of the laws that DO exist.
>
>Most of the proposed bills will have impact only on cemeteries on "public"
>property -- sites owned or controlled by the state, the counties, the
>townships and the cities and towns. One bill (HB 1522) will govern how and
>under what circumstances our ancestors and predecessors' remains will be
>disinterred and reinterred when the real estate upon which they are buried
>becomes "ripe for development".
>
>The real estate developers in this state consider pioneer cemeteries an
>impediment and an encumbrance. I can guarantee you that, in years to come,
>you will at some point learn that a cemetery to which you feel some bond
>will be subject to relocation. How that takes place and what happens to
>those human remains, if it must happen, is of tremendous importance to
>family historians, genealogists and right-thinking people everywhere.
>
>Today, if a property owner wants to move a known cemetery on his/her
>property or if human remains are found in an unknown cemetery is found
>during construction, there is almost a 100% chance that those remains will
>be excavated and then warehoused in a university archeology laboratory where
>they will be housed INDEFINITELY for "archeological research".
>
>It's happened on three occasions in the past two years that we know of
>today. We're sure it's happened more often that that, but these things are
>usually kept hush-hush because they don't want to "offend our
>sensibilities". The 35 children and 8 adults that were exhumed two years
>ago in Indianapolis to make way for the construction of a warehouse are
>STILL on deposit in a laboratory in Indianapolis and there is apparently no
>timetable for their reinterment. It happened last summer in Dubois County
>and it happened again last December in Shelby County.
>
>Read the bills yourself. They are all linked from the INPCRP Pending
>Legislation pages. Make up your own minds about them. Contact your
>legislators and tell them your opinion. Come to the hearing on Monday in
>Indianapolis if you can and stand up and tell your Representatives' what you
>know and what you believe about the desperate state of the vast majority of
>Indiana's pioneer cemeteries.
>
>Lois Mauk
>INPCRP State Coordinator
>
>
>
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>Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know.
>
>
>
I'm rather backing up and sending this information in reverse. the 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):
>
>(1) We now have ONE HUNDRED members of the INPCRP e-mail discussion group.
>
>(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!
>
>(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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Further information is available on the INPCRP website at:
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp
>
>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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>
>
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>We left Jeffersonville about 10:30 Monday morning and drove to Indianapolis.
>I wanted to be there earlier than the "appointed" starting time of 2:30 P.M.
>as I feared the general meeting of the House might end earlier than expected
>and that the hearings would be over with before we could get there. SILLY
>ME!!!
>
>We arrived at about 1:15 P.M. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATER, we went into the
>House Chambers (about 5:45).
>
>I must admit that, other than the endless standing on those hard marble
>floors, I really enjoyed the fellowship with so many people who share my
>concerns and interests. In all we had about 15 good-spirited,
>long-suffering people who waited it out with us. But it was WORTH IT!
>
>Our SECRET WEAPON worked BEAUTIFULLY. My friend Donnie Loweth (whose family
>cemetery here in Clark County was blacktopped and turned into a parking
>lot -- graves notwithstanding) took his beautiful 8-year-old daughter Ashley
>out of school for the day and we brought her with us to the Capitol.
>
>When the hearing began, because of the lateness of the hour, Rep. Markt
>Lytle thanks us several times for our fortitude and explained that, rather
>than receiving comments on individual pending bills, the Committee would
>hear brief testimony from anyone wishing to speak about the situation in
>general.
>
>I got up and did my little song-and-dance. Then Rep. Lytle called Ashley.
>Though she was conspicuous as the only child present, I think all of them
>were a bit stunned when she got up to speak. Ashley approached the
>microphone and, in a very clear, calm voice, said:
>
>"Good evening! It makes me very happy and proud to speak before you today,
>but it also saddens me for the reason that I am here.
>
>"My name is Ashley Loweth. I'm 8 years old and I'm in the third grade.
>
>"The reason I am here today is, we write laws every day to protect ourselves
>and our rights. That is great. But what about after we leave this world?
>
>"I am a descendant of the Nathan Hale you may have read about in your
>history books. I have three generations of great-grandparents buried in a
>little lonely cemetery in Clarksville, Indiana. What is sad about this is
>that three-fourths of the cemetery is now under blacktop and the law says,
>'This is okay. As long as the property owner is paying taxes, they can do
>what they want.'
>
>"I don't understand all the laws, but I really don't understand how this one
>got passed.
>
>"How would you feel if your Grandma took you to put flowers on your
>great-grandparents' grave and you were told, 'There they lay, under that
>blacktop!'
>
>"Well, I know that feeling and it hurts! Not only blacktop, but there are
>two pay phones and a utility pole with guide wires going into a grave.
>That's not all. They even have an EPA monitoring device in the middle to
>monitor the ground for their gas pumps."
>
>"I am asking you to please change this law for some day I will want to take
>my children to this very same lonely little cemetery and be able to say,
>'This is where we came from. This is our roots!
>
>"Thank you."
>
>Little Ashley received a standing ovation. I don't believe there was a dry
>eye in the house. She left the Representatives speakless. Rep. Lytle
>jokingly asked, "Does anyone on the committee have any tough questions for
>Ashley?" Of course, there was nothing they could say. She'd said it all.
>
>The rest of us had our opportunity to speak and I'm very proud of each and
>every one of you who toughed it out with us. I don't believe, however, that
>there's much question that little Ashley stole the show and the rest of us
>were just there to lend our support to her plea.
>
>Good night. I'm going to bed! It's not midnight yet and my body will
>probably go into shock if I get more than 4 hours sleep, but I'm willing to
>risk it at this juncture!
>
>Lois
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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