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From: dreyer <>
Subject: [BANAT-L] Cemeteries in the Banat
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 12:57:06 -0800


Gert;
There are any number of possibilities.
Perhaps the plot was recycled. Cemetery plots in Germany and France are
recycled every 15-10 years, especially if they are not maintained by the
family. I do not know what the rate is in Romania, probably less
frequently. I always wonder about people who make a trip back to
Germany and expect to find the plot of their great grandfather in some
small town in Baden, Hesse, etc. It ain't gona happen.
One reads from time to time in the Banater Post about gravestones being
taken from Donauschwaeben cemeteries and used for porch steps etc.
Donauschwaeben cemeteries in the Banat are not normally maintained
unless the appropate HOG takes action to do so. One can certainly write
off the ones in the Serbian Banat. The Sackelhausen HOG probably has a
fund which one can contribute to which is used to maintain the
Sackelhausen cemetery.
Dave Dreyer
Gert Fresenburg wrote:
>
> List,
> My uncle Pete Gier, son of Peter and Katharina Gier geb. Hummel
> was born and died in Sackelhausen. He is buried in the Sackelhausen
> cemetery. I have a picture of his headstone (Dates not legible) with
> two of my grandmothers sisters on the picture.
> There is no record of his burial or the picture of the headstone in the
> cemetery book.
> Any suggestion. Maybe just an oversite? He was only 14 years old at the
> time of his death.
> Gert
>

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