Hello All,
You had better check the laws a little closer on this one. Check IC
23-14-48 and 23-14-54 to see if the perpetual fund rules apply. In most
instances, the laws prohibit burials in places where the grave or the
cemetery will not be cared for perpetually.
I tried to access the INPCRP website to go to the cemetery laws to check
this out, but my ISP is having server problems tonite, and I could not
connect. I had some notes on a local cemetery where there was no viable
organization maintaining it and no perpetual fund for care, and burials
were prohibited.
Ernie
At 09:34 PM 8/30/00, you wrote:
We had that request here in Henry county and they were told as long it
is
still recognized as a cemetery. It could be handled by a local funeral home
or mortician. Check with a funeral home, they can make the arrangements.
UEB
----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Frick <dfrick(a)flash.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:12 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Burial in Pioneer Cemeteries
> If a person wanted to be buried in a pioneer cemetery with his or her
> ancestors are there laws prohibiting this? I'd love to hear lots of
> discussion about this idea. Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Debbie
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> If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living?
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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