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From: "Mike St. Clair" <>
Subject: Re: Visting Old Family Cemeteries
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:33:23 -0600


You can probably get a contact address by going to the Edgefield county
Courthouse
and looking up the current owner. I strongly suspect they would allow you
to
survey the cemetery, especially if you approach them gently. That's
probably the
best first approach.

"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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