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From: Virginia Crystal <>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries,
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:12:35 -0800
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> In a message dated 2/10/01 9:04:56 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> << Subj: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries
> Date: 2/10/01 9:04:56 PM US Eastern Standard Time
> From: (Jim Wilcox)
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>
> I have been out today Pinpointing the Locations of more Pioneer Cemeteries,
> and Burial sites to eventually turn over to whoever is supposed to set up a
> Data Base for the Information. (It's been 8 months now) It was very cold and
> windy here in Floyd Co. but I managed to finish the day. I am very pleased to
> see that a number of you seem to be in general agreement. Jim and all the
> others, your attitude is, in my opinion the same as the people that are
> buried in these Sites. They were determined not to give up, that is why we
> all have most of the advantages we have today, because they had none. They
> had conditions that are beyond anything we can imagine in modern times.
>
> They never gave up when a child, or maybe 2 or 3, died, and
> also a wife, or husband passed away. They went out to these Cemeteries we are
> trying to save, had Primitive but Dignified services, said their good-byes,
> shed their tears, and went back to clearing the land, and trying to hold a
> family together. When I am out and the remote Burial Ground I have just
> visited seems so far from a neighbor, I try to Imagine if I would have been
> able to go on under those circumstances. I'm not sure I could have. My family
> in the 1800s had no money. They paid $1.25 per acre for farm land we couldn't
> clear today with a Bulldozer. Where and how they got the determination, I
> don't know.
> If we give up without a good fight to get some enforceable Laws to Protect
> the Burial Grounds on the land these hardy souls worked so hard to keep, then
> we should all go home, turn on the TV, sit down and make ourselves
> comfortable. But I know this will not happen, because I see in the E-Mails
> the willingness, and determination necessary to see this all through. The
> Lawmakers must designate responsibility to people who are willing and able to
> see that the Laws necessary are rigidly enforced. The very idea of moving a
> Burial Site and not making it Public as to where the Remains are Reburied,
> not only here in Floyd Co. but in other counties I have read about today, is
> unbelievable. Lois and I just talked on the Phone a short time ago, and we
> agreed there is strength in numbers. Let's don't just raise Hell here today,
> let's keep the pressure on County, and State Politicians until they begin to
> see the Real Problems.
> As I said, the determination is there, I see it in your E-Mails. As
> for myself, above all else I will obey the Laws of the State of Indiana, But
> I don't always have to like it. Personally I don't like doing the Twp.
> Trustee's Job, as Required of him by Law, but if that's what it takes, so be
> it for now. But HB 1758 is not the Answer.
> I know we'll keep Clearing and Cleaning Cemeteries regardless of whether we
> have Protection Laws or not, but with this group, maybe someday we can even
> start saving some.
>
> Jack E. Briles Sr
>
> ==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
> "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
> are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
> undisguised. This is a cemetery.
> "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
> historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
> "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
> in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
> not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
> memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
> "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
> yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
> exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
> --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA



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