Tom, I agree! My husband and I spent some time in Orange County this
summer, going to many cemeteries and we felt it went well. Esther
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Agan <labooski(a)ithink.net>
To: <INORANGE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: Cemeteries
I was in Orange County during the last week of July and all of the
cemeteries you listed were in excellent shape. I visited close to 40
cemeteries while there and the most neglected one I saw was at Lick Creek
Friends church and it was more than exceptable. The ones in danger and
total
neglect are the private cemeteries on private lands that have passed
out
of
the ownership of the original families.
I'm afraid that they are probably out of our hands, as they are on private
property. While the folks in Orange County are wonderful, I'm not sure how
they'd feel about having people tramp through their land on a regular
basis.
One thing we have as a blessing is that no matter how neglected
these
cemeteries are, our folks are still at rest in them, some contractor isn't
paving over the resting places to make a parking lot for another mall.
Every church cemetery was freshly mowed, in fact about 15 of the ones I
visited were being mowed while I was visiting the grounds. I enjoyed
visiting all these sanctuaries of rest. After doing all the work on the
website, it was like visiting friends. We're so fortunate that Orange
County
has remained the rural community that it always has been. There
isn't the
economical decisions in force to move or just build over these cemeteries,
which under current law is totally permissible. I'd rather my ancestors
lie
in family plot that is a cow pasture than under the drive-thru lane
of
some
Dairy Queen.
Tom Agan
>I live in Texas and only get to Indiana every 2 or 3 years. I would be
>willing to support cemetery clean-up monetarily. My family is buried at
>IOOF, City Cemetery, Ames Chapel, Antioch, and Stampers Creek.
>
>I also have family in Washington County and their cemeteries seemed to be
>kept up better. At least in 1998.
>
>Kay E. Armstrong
>kayarm(a)swbell.net