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From: "Sam Cline" <>
Subject: Fw: [INPCRP] Fw: Endangered Cemetery Report -- Brainer/Braner Cemetery, Sullivan Co., IN
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 22:58:45 -0500

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From: Lois Mauk <>
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:00 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Fw: Endangered Cemetery Report -- Brainer/Braner Cemetery,
Sullivan Co., IN


Bill Spurlock <> of "Saving Graves"
http://www.savinggraves.com>; was kind enough to pass on the following report
submitted to him. Does anyone on the list know anything about this site? It
appears that the graves are about to relocated, following the reported
destruction of the stones by a logging company.

> name: Donna K. Adams
> Email:
> address: 8422 W. Phillip St. Merom, IN 47861
> phone: (812) 268-4957
> Cemetery_Name: Brainer/Braner Cemetery
> Land_Type: Private
> Owner: Black Beauty Coal Company
>
> Cemetery_Location: Jackson Township, Sullivan County, Indiana
>
> Description
> A small cemetery with very few stones left and they are barely readable.
> There is supposedly about 15 Civil War Veterans buried in there.
>
> Problem
> The Coal mine has hired a logging company to log the woods beside the
> cemetery. The heavy equipment ran right over the top of the stones and
> destroyed them. Now the coal company wants to move the the graves to another
> site. According to a legal notice on April 4, 2000 in our local newspaper
> the Sullivan Daily Times, heirs have at least 30 days to challenge the
> request.
>
> Previous_Contacts
> Civil War Roundtable of Indiana Wally King, an investigator for the Sullivan
> County Prosecutor's Office. Sullivan County Cemetery Board Hymera American
> Legion Sullivan County Veterans Administration
>
> Current_Status
> Presently trying to find Indiana protection laws for pioneer cemeteries.
> Also trying to find heirs to the people buried there. We don't have a
> complete list of burials and do not have any of the Civil War names.
>
>


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