Someone needs to go to the Court House to the land records and check out the
land. From begining to present then post the record trail of owner's. Maybe
the land was donated for a Cemetery. in the early 1800's. If it was it
should have a imformation abt this in a deed.
Most Cemeteries wer donated land by a land owner at some pointt or just had
a owner's family in it.
If you have the address then get a discription of the layout of the address
and can begin there going back. The land where the cem was may have had more
land added or been removed from the origin of the owner that owned it when
it was startdf to be a cemetery. maybe it was never removed and remained
in the prop owner's name on down the line to present.
At any rate it usualy is GREED for MONEY that causes these unkept cem's to
be destroyed.
Maxine
willma(a)sprynet.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "William J. Dodd" <wjdodd(a)fsp.fsp.com>
To: <INRANDOL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Heaston Cemetery
Sorry this is so long after the original message, but I have only
just now
been able to mail to the list again.
> Ok I talked to a few people today who have lived in Randolph County,
about
Heaston cemetery and was told there are no more stones there.
> That the ground is owned by the Armory.
> You can see where the cemetery used to be, and the little creek that
runs
through the piece of ground. I was told the land flooded often, and
families were complaining about the water. They moved several of the bodies
to Fountain Park and several were left behind. The ground was stirred
around a bit, and stones removed, and some of the families were told no
remains were to be found. From what I have read and what I have been told,
it looks like several people were upset about the conditions of the flooding
land, and then they were not happy with what was done about it either.
>
> Anyone else hear any stories about this cemetery??
If this is the wooded piece of ground just behind the Armory, then I was
taken there by a relative in October of 2001 while we were making the
rounds of cemeteries where we had ancestors buried. I was told that there
was an Allen stone there at one time, but there were no upright stones to
be seen as we walked through the place that day. There were several
stones lying flat on the ground, however, and I would not be surprised if
there were others that are now covered with several inches of grass and
dirt. My relative said that there was a story that a dumptruck full of
tombstones from there had "disappeared," the stones ending up at a dump,
while the lot was being obtained and prepared for house construction.
There are houses nearby, and I do not know the original boundaries of the
cemetery, but some of those people might be living atop gravesites.
Stuff like that breaks a genealogist's heart.
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wjdodd(a)fsp.fsp.com | Bishop Milton Wright (father of Wilbur & Orville), c.
1870.
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