Larry,
Jeepers Creepers! This guy has got to know that our old pioneer cemeteries'
individual burial plots are not always marked i.e. stolen marker, sunken
marker or no marker. Does he know that it is highly possible he could dig
into another grave??
Angela Tielking
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From: "Stephens, Larry V" <stephenl(a)indiana.edu
To:
<INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
8:32 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Empty spaces
I am told that the owner of a funeral home in Greene County appeared
at a
genealogical society meeting in a nearby county and asked for help locating
old cemeteries. His plan is to locate available spaces in those cemeteries
and then offer them to people at - probably - reduced costs. I suppose this
is compared to commercial cemeteries like Valhalla here in Bloomington.
This is not meant to impugn the intent or integrity of these people, but
it did
raise some questions in the attendees' minds. Many remote cemeteries
do not have regular tending and, in some cases, it may be hard to determine
who "owns" them and controls them. If a funeral home so chose, they could
"sell" these lots (sell without benefit of rights of ownership in the first
place), bury someone and move on.
Of course there are supposed to be filings on burials, but...
Any thoughts on this notion?
Larry V. Stephens
Office of Risk Management
812-855-9758
stephenL(a)indiana.edu
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