Bud,
I am so glad that this has blown over. I guess you and Donna won't be going
to jail after all! :-)
Angela Tielking
----- Original Message -----
From: "UEB" <ueb(a)iei.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Trespassing
We had an exciting day last Tuesday....especially in that one cemetery.
Mr.
Barnes contacted me Saturday morning and wanted me to come out and
talk
with
him about the problem. His wife is one of those kind that doesn't
leave
the
house on Friday the 13th and is a little tilted in her beliefs, but
she is
entitled to her own beliefs just like everyone else. Mr. Barnes went with
me
to the cemetery and we had a long talk about the problems dealing
with the
cemeteries. He thought what we are doing is great. He told me if he had
known I was involved this wouldn't have happened. He told me about all of
the vandalism going on in that part of the county. He has to maintain a
post
office box in order to receive mail, vandals have destroyed about a
dozen
of
his mail boxes. I told him I understood his concerns completely. His
neighbor is the one who informed him that there were a bunch of jail
inmates
in his cemetery that day. She thought because we all had RED United
Fund
Day
of Caring t-shirts on we were convicts or something similar. (
I'll
suggest
a different color next year) He mentioned that he had been advised
by
several people that nobody owns a cemetery, they belong to the people,
even
if it is on his property. His attorney advised him that he would be
opening
a can of worms because of the screwed up cemetery laws of Indiana. I
have
gotten to know this couple over the last couple of years, they are good
people, some call them strange, rednecks, hillbillies and such, but if
that's the way they want to live, that's there business, I don't believe
the
terrorist have caused that right to be taken away yet. So... I hope
this
all
blows over. They were invited to the next cemetery commission
meeting, but
I
doubt very seriously if they will attend.
I would like to thank all of you for the support given Donna and I over
this
issue. I learned that you never assume that because you were there
before,
you will be welcome the next time...especially if you don't notify them
ahead of time.
UEB
INPCRP
Henry Co., IN
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