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From: "m. benson" <>
Subject: Re: Visting Old Family Cemeteries
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:17:53 -0600


Laws vary from state to state. You might get in touch with county or state
officials to see what the laws are in SC. I know where I live, if it is on
private property, ,you are tresspassing if you go on the property without
permission of the owner and unless there was some type of legal agreement at
the time the property passed out of the hands of the owners of the property
who established the cemetary which would allow descendants of the people
buried in the cemetary access after the property was sold, you are out of
luck
"Tom Coker" <> wrote in message
news:B5AC10FE.F14E%...
> Recently I found an old family cemetery in Edgefield County SC. This
> cemetery is a little over a 1/4 mile off the road, down a private drive,
> with POSTED NO TRESSPASSING signs at the entrance of the drive. The people
> who own the land do not live in the county. I could find no address or
phone
> number to call to ask for permission to survey and photograph the
cemetery.
> My question is this : Is there a law that protects my rights as a
descendent
> of this family to visit this cemetery? I have heard that there is - but I
> have yet to find one on record and don't quite know where to look.
>

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