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From: "Mike Hitch \(Home\)" <>
Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:09:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <F1807dg9ZD7G3Lbc1At00001801@hotmail.com>


OK, but the implication of your message seemed to be that landowners can do
what they will with graveyards on their property. This very far from the
truth and needs to be expressed to every landowner who has such a property
that it is his/her legal obligation not to tamper with a graveyard in an
adverse manner. Secondly, but I will defer to Shari for an official "call",
I think that protection of graveyards on Lower Delmarva is well within the
discussion bounds of this mailing list. One huge tool of the lower Delmarva
genealogist is reading old cemetery stones to gain insights into research.
There is even a CEMTREK trip planned every year on this list to do just
that - go out and record old cemeteries before they are lost to history.
Like I say, this is just my opinion but I did not see a problem with the
posting.

Thanks,
Mike Hitch
ww.mikehitch.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Montgomery [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:57 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!


Mike,
Lets get the facts straight,
sheila said they where logging off,
That is a far cry from digging up, ect.
I suggest that if she is so all concerned, that agian she purchase the
property.
I think if you will get more facts here, you will be surprised to what is
really happening.
For example, how many acres is being logged, how close to her graves, ect.
but agian this is way off topic!
Has she talked to the loggers?
Perhaps Alt.savethe graves is where this should be.
RAY


>From: "Mike Hitch \(Home\)" <>
>To: "Raymond Montgomery" <>,
><>
>Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:37:48 -0400
>
>Ray - graveyards are consecrated areas that are protected by law. If you
>are
>a landowner in MD and have a graveyard on your property, you are not only
>not allowed to clear it but you are also required to maintain it in a
>reasonable manner. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse - the land owner
>must comply. Do landowners have a right to grave-rob? Can they dig up the
>remains of people buried on their land and take possession of any jewelry
>and other artifacts they might find? I hope you can answer this with a,
>"no." Graveyards in our society are sacred places based upon our collective
>religions. I know of not one religion or culture that does not respect
>burial locations unless one is an atheist.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Hitch
>www.mikehitch.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raymond Montgomery [mailto:]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:28 PM
>To:
>Subject: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
>
>
>List et al:
>First off this is way off topic, and
>Second this is not right.
>You are going to call senators and congressmen to try to enforce your will
>on some one whom is using there land for what they own it for.
>Talk about a warped society!
>Who pray tell gives you the right to tell some one else what to do with
>what
>they own. I/they dont come into your home and tell you what to do with it.
>Dont do it to some one else.
>Get a clue people!
>If she wants to control the property let her buy it. If she cant then let
>her whine and moan with out letting us hear about it.
>Yes this is harsh, but what I am seeing is extremely stupid!
>RAY
>
>
> >From: Carolyn Beachy <>
> >To:
> >Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #136
> >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:50:24 -0400
> >
> >your congressmen and senetors of the state that it is happening in is who
> >you see. Call WBOS Salsbury Md. it's the TV station for the area and
>Del.
> >State news paper
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Subject:
> > >
> > > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 02 :
> >Issue 136
> > >
> > > Today's Topics:
> > > #1 [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D D
> >[]
> > > #2 [LDR] Re: Handy Smith ["Nancy E. Gates"
> ><.]
> > > #3 [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logg ["Bill Reder"
> ><>]
> > > #4 RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS ["Mike Hitch (Home)"
> ><]
> > > #5 [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane B []
> > >
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> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:38:58 -0400
> > > From:
> > > To:
> > >
> > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> >may
> > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> >this?
> > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> >ASAP
> > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: Handy Smith
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:05:43 -0400
> > > From: "Nancy E. Gates" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Still looking for the parents of Handy Smith who married (before 1830)
> >Sarah
> > > Littleton and Handy's sister Dortha Smith who married (1830) to Isaac
> > > Littleton. Isaac and Sarah Littleton were brother and sister also.
> > > Thanks....Nancy
> > > ************************************************
> > > Genealogy Research:
> > > Baker, Barnhouse, Enoch, Higgins,
> > > Jarard/Jarrett, Tennant, Weekley
> > > Gates, Lockhart, Collins, Smith
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:01 PM
> > > Subject: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logged Over
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:11:39 -0500
> > > From: "Bill Reder" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Wow, that's a toughie. I don't think it would hurt if you contacted
>the
> >Delaware Gen. Society. Some of those guys are pretty well connected and
>my
> >have enough juice to at least get the stones archived before the Loggers
>do
> >the dirty deed. The DGS website is: www.delgensoc.org Might cost you the
> >price of a membership, or some private Gen. Research time, but at
> >$15.00/annum for the membership, that's a bargain. Not sure about the
> >price for the Researcher. Best of luck. Cathy Prettyman Reder
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:49:48 -0400
> > > From: "Mike Hitch (Home)" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > You might contact the logging company to just let them know you know
>the
> > > graves are there and hope that they willl take care to work around
>them.
> > > They are likely to be much more carefull if they know "someone is
> >watching."
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Mike Hitch
> > > http://www.mikehitch.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:
> > > [mailto:]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:39 PM
> > > To:
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > >
> > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> >may
> > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> >this?
> > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> >ASAP
> > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > >
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> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane Boist
> > > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:17:35 EDT
> > > From:
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Years ago my Great Aunt Ouida Milner researched the Rev John Harris
>line
> >for
> > > a booklet, "Our Harris Family". Rev Harris was the husband of Mary
> >Handy,
> > > daughter of Issac Handy and Anne Dashiell. She referred to a book by
> >Clara
> > > May Denham Haines entitled "Visit our Family Tree".
> > >
> > > Mrs Haines states that Samuel Handy married MARY SEWELL, daughter of
>the
> >Hon.
> > > Henry Sewell and his wife Jane (Lowe) Sewell. It went on to say that
> >Henry
> > > arrived in America in 1661 and received the grant of "Mataponi" in
>1663.
> > The
> > > Handy-Sewell marriage is recorded in the Stepney Parish records in
> >Somerset
> > > County. Perhaps someone with access to those records could find the
> >names of
> > > Mary Sewell's parents.
> > >
> > > Secondly, I have "A Somerset Sampler-Families of Old Somerset County,
> > > Maryland 1700-1776" copyrighted in 1994 by the Lower Demarva
> >Genealogical
> > > Society. On page 173, it states that Jeffrey Long, son of Samuel and
> >Jane
> > > (minshall) Long, b. at
> > > Mormusco and a resident of Annemessex Hd., m. MARY SEWELL, daughter of
> >Thomas
> > > and Jane (Boice/Boist) Sewell, and had issure: a) Samuel b)
>Jeffrey
> > > c)Sewell d) Jane e) David f) Mary. David and Mary were under age
>in
> >1731.
> > > (Somerset Co, Deeds, IKL; Tax lists for Somerset Co; wills of David
> >Long, 26
> > > Nov 1716-1718 Mar 1716(7) and Jeoffey Long, 1 July 1731-17 June 1732,
> > > Somerset Co, Wills, EB-9:18-19, 138-39 and Dryden, Somerset Co, Land
> >Records,
> > > p. 220.
> > >
> > > Looks like there could be two Mary Sewells.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kathy Lynn
> >
> >
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