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From: Jackie <>
Subject: Cemetery Clean UP
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:41:45 -0800 (PST)


I went to Indiana Prairie Cemetery today in Franklin
County. Most of it looked very well taken care of but
there were several fenced in graves that were just
filled with tree limbs and very overgrown.
There are so many old graves there that you cannot
read any more. There was a barb wire fence around the
cemetery and I could see stones on the other side of
the wire. There are new homes surrounding the
cemetery.
It's a shame people do not write down the information
before it becomes unreadable. I was given the name of
a person who knew the most about this cemetery, I am
going to try and get in touch with them. I don't know
if they would have any more records than what is on
rootsweb but I would like to know. I have been
looking for my relatives for a long time and they are
probably in a cemetery like this somewhere in Franklin
County, these graves are old and untended by family
members.
Can anyone go in the fenced in areas and clean them
up? There are about 3 or 4 areas fenced in within the
cemetery. Looks like no one has done this for quite
some time and I would just like to see what they use
to look like even if you cannot read the names. It
looks like there are stones just laying anywhere (?)
Kids probably did the re arranging. Kinda hard to
know where they go unless we could find the
records.......

Jackie



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