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From: "Elaine Gallant" <>
Subject: Re: Visting Old Family Cemeteries
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 23:56:56 GMT


Trespassing means being somewhere without a good reason for being there. For
instance, the meter reader is not "trespassing" when he or she goes into
your back yard to read the meter.

You would not be "trespassing" when you go to the cemetery to pay your
respects to your relatives. The "trespassing" in a cemetery is addressed to
anyone there for a reason other than visiting a grave site.


"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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