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From: "Sue Silver" <>
Subject: [CANevada] Fw: [INPCRP] New Jersey cemetery needs our help
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 05:40:23 -0800


Here is more on the cemetery the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has
petitioned to relocate.

Sue Silver
El Dorado County, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] New Jersey cemetery needs our help


> This came through on another list and I thought this list might be
> interested in seeing it. To make room for the New Jersey turnpike, there
> are plans to disinter over 3,500 burials in a Potter's field cemetery and
> rebury them in a mass grave. There is an online petition to help prevent
> this from happening.
>
> Here is the message:
>
> To Whom it May Concern;
>
> I am the descendant of a person interred at the Hudson County Burial
> Grounds located in Secaucus, New Jersey. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority
> wants to move all 3,500 remains into a common grave. I do not believe the
> public has been notified of this topic enough. I have started a petition
to
> help show support of the public being against this matter. Our online
> petition as well as our paper petition has been circulating for just two
> days now and has been getting tremendous response. I have sent a letter to
> the judge in charge of this case and await his reply. I want the right to
> speak to the judge about this case in court. I want the public to be well
> informed of this matter. I want your help in spreading the news of this
> situation.
>
> Our online petition site.
> http://www.petitiononline.com/5final/petition.html
>
> Our online site with links to all the stories
> http://www.graveinfo.com
> http://www.graveinfo.8m.com/
>
> Sincerely,
> Bill T Hastings
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> "Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you
have."
> Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
>
>

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