I was wondering that my self how a private individual could purchase the
land from the church. After many years if the church no longer is a
functioning church under what jurisdiction did the church become, or
what council? Even if the church was in disrepair and no one was
looking after the cemetery part, who had the right to sell the church
and surrounding property? There would have had to have been in the
original land description that a cemetery was contained within the
grounds and not be disturbed (called a deed restriction where I come
from). Meaning the property couldn't be resold and have the cemetery
disturbed.
Since I don't know the area and haven't seen the deed it is hard to
guess. My one guess would be that there is no restriction within the
deed which prohibits the destruction of the cemetery area. My other
guess would be MOnisa stepped in at the right time and warned the
officials that the owner was going to put a septic tank on the cemetery
grounds.
It also could have been land owned by an individual and the parcel was
leased to the church for say 50 years and the descendants of the
original owner sold the parcel.
It would be interesting to see the chain of title on this parcel to
figure it out. Yes it would cost alot to have the title searched unless
someone already knows which atty/title company had it done and could
get a copy of it. But it probably would still cost something.
That is my background title searching in case you all are wondering.
Lindsey
Andrea - Genealogy wrote on 11/30/2006, 5:22 PM:
OOOOhH, that's a good question. Maybe Lindsey can answer this
type of
question about if a cemetery is listed on a deed in general. I know that
the current owner has not had it all that long. I think he just wants to
farm it. The fellow who wanted to build the house there would of been
before Monisa left from the health dept and I don't really know when that
all happened, nor do I know who owned during all the other years, and it
would probably cost a bit to find out.
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When was the land sold that the cemetery & church were located on ? When
did the church sell the land? Is the cemetery listed on the deed ?.
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