Sue,
They did the same thing here in El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento counties
when they built Folsom dam and lake. We know they didn't get all the graves
in the 8 cemeteries relocated and they didn't get all the cemeteries....
Now it may turn out that the contractor hired didn't bury each set of
remains separately but may have buried five or more per grave in violation
of the government's contract. Cheaper that way, you know, the bulldozer
only had to actually did one out of five grave sites.
At the core is the lack of respect it shows. At the very end of the tunnel,
it's all about how much history and physical loss of historic feature can we
endure before as a nation we have no tangible pieces of our histories left.
Places are part of roots just the same as our bloodlines...
Sue Silver
California
----- Original Message -----
From: c_snoe(a)msn.com <c_snoe(a)email.msn.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Parker Cemetery, Allen county
I hope you can do something...I have no suggestions I can only tell
you
that
they moved the Vernon Cemetery in Somerset, Wabash Co.,IN awhile
back to
the Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery and it really messed us all up. Vernon
had been a beautiful place with Willow trees and rolling hills by the
Mississinewa River and now it is just a place in the road...There were
many,
many of the family there and the move itself was horrible. The corp.
of
engineers just did it..no votes, no nothing..this is it and that was all.
It has taken us years to reconstruct where everyone is now... it was so
devastating..and you have to wonder if "they"are really there at all. I
don't know what they found when they got into the graves..some had been
there a hundred years. I can't imagine time had been friendly. This was
to
make way for a reservoir some years ago. I hope it was worth it to
whoever
did it. It was just so terrible for us. Parents, grandparents,
cousins
everybody...at least I do know where the markers are..I really imagine
they
are cenotaphs ?? We'll never know. Sue
-----Original Message-----
From: Jb502000(a)aol.com <Jb502000(a)aol.com>
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Parker Cemetery, Allen county
>In a message dated 11/28/00 4:06:30 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>bsmead(a)gte.net writes:
>
><< I just read a notice in Genforum, Allen county, about St Joseph
township
>wanting to move gravesites at the Parker cemetery so that the
road can be
>widen St. Joe Center RD. The message is at
>http://genforum.genealogy.com/in/allen Is there anything that can be
done
>besides e-mail?
> Brian E. Smead
> Terre Haute, Indiana >>
>
>
>This is one of the things I always fear. If the Road widening is
necessary
>for the general publics welfare and safety, and there is no
other
>alternative, and a Court sees fit, they can move the Cemetery under the
>Rights of Eminent Domain. Simply stated this means (You can't Stop
Progress)
>Apparently the County has no other options, or I am sure they would
exercise
>them, rather than move any of the Cemetery.That is going on in St. Louis,
>Missouri at this time. A cemetery is being moved because the hill it sits
on
>happens to now be in the way of an Airports take off's and landings.
>Endangering the Public.You may have a different situation there. I hope
so.
>Is it a matter the DNR can look at.?
>Someone else may have a much better answer. Good Luck,
>
Jack
>Briles
>
>jb502000(a)aol.com.
>
>
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