I'd like to make one observation that I garnered from attending this man's
trial. There is nothing on any form that anyone, including the contractors,
must answer regarding the question of a cemetery. I'm not trying to defend
this man because common sense and decency should have made him pause.
However, my point is that Indiana apparently is doing nothing to inform the
public of the new law. The question of whether a cemetery is involved should
be included on one of the permits.
Just recently, a news team uncovered the fact that Indiana County Clerks did
not know they were required to send in information regarding criminal
histories. Having just moved to Indiana, on the surface, it appears that
Indiana must pass laws and then not inform anyone. Not good.
MaryAlice Parks
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From: "Lee" <Armytruck(a)webtv.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: RE: [INPCRP] Brown County Cemetery Link
Well this certainly sounds like somebody caught in the act. Stones
"piled" versus
placed by the tree, sounds familiar. "Didn't even know it was there",
yet obviously he figured it out enough to move them. Its the
"trustee's" fault, since he couldn't alter his septic system and leave
the graveyard alone. "Grading" gravesites
now thats a heck of an idea.
He started destroying the second he started removing tombstones,
probably
figured its my property and I will do as I damn well please. This is
the start of the process of so many gravesites that we are looking for
today, I have never heard of anybody taking stones away and then putting
them back, besides you would need to be pretty accurate to find the
exact spots after altering the contour of the ground.
HIs plea of miitigating circumstances and
innocent ignorance is nonsense. I hope there is a hot corner in hell
warming up for him.
Lee Creed
Greencastle
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THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
undisguised. This is a cemetery.
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
--Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA