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Cemetery Feedback Well my friends, the subject of private cemeteries and/or moving reamins from one cemetery to another seems to have opened a Pandora's box among readers!
Margaret McCleskey of Arlington, Texas, asked about her state's laws regarding private cemeteries. I did a little digging and discovered you can visit a cemetery or private burial ground during reasonable hours and only for the purposes usually associated with cemetery visits. In addition, the owner of the land may designate the routes of reasonable ingress and egress. You Texans also may want to read about getting the Historic Texas Cemetery designation from the Texas Historical Commission.
Steve Melton wanted to let me know about Siskiyou Cemeteries Online Steve and his wife did a tremendous amount of research to create the site. He wrote "During our cemetery research in Siskiyou County, which is one of the largest counties in California—though one of the least populous due to difficult terrain—we found many cemeteries that had fallen into disrepair.
"Oak Bar, one of the cemeteries down the Klamath River (listed under Cemeteries/Other/Oak Bar), had only one headstone. Further research brought us in contact with a fellow who had a photograph that showed the cemetery when it was well-kept. There had to be over one hundred graves there, all lost now to time and neglect. We searched every possible source and managed to find just a couple names of those buried there, though the exact location of the graves was impossible to determine."
On the subject of moving remains, Megan Welty wrote that sometimes people are moved because the cemetery is in the way of a freeway, as was the case in Antioch, Calif. "In San Francisco, most of the cemeteries were removed from the city and the deceased people moved to cemeteries in Colma, Calif."
Folks, there's so much interest about this subject, I'm wondering if you would use a Web page with links to the states that have information on cemetery preservation. Let me know.
More cemetery resources:
• Preserving Historic Cemeteries
• Saving Graves
• Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project
• Ohio Cemetery Preservation Society
• South Carolina Cemetery Preservation
• Preservation of Arkansas' Historic Cemeteries
• Colma, California, City of the Dead Nancy Hendrickson is a contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine. She also is a family historian, freelance writer
and the author of two astronomy books. Her Web site
is at www.ancestornews.com. E-mail her at stjoemo@pobox.com.
by Nancy Hendrickson
www.thc.state.tx.us/cemeteries/cempreserve.html
www.savinggraves.com
www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp
www.rootsweb.com/~ohcps
www.state.sc.us/scdah/cemetery.htm
www.arkansaspreservation.org/preservation-services/cemetery-preservation
www.thecemeteryproject.com/fdp-colma.htm
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