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From: Roberta Sheridan <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Robb Cemetery & Higbee
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 09:26:29 -0500


First of all I went to Higbee last Sat. I ask around town about the K.
K. K. girls no body seemed to know anything about it. But they all knew
Dr. Burkhalter and his wife and spoke very highly of them and didn't
think they would have anything to do with the Ku- Klux Klan. but I will
keep asking. My 3 cousins and I went to the Robb cemetery, when we got
there, the man that bought the farm had fenced off some of his ground
and put in cows. Well for some reason, he bought them out of the fenced
in area and had them up by the cemetery, they knocked down our fence and
totaly wrecked the cem. out of 28 stones there or 2 left standing, most
of them or knocked over and broken, What are my rights to do now. We had
put out $325 last year to have all the trees removed and sprayed for
the weeds, thats what we went out their for Sat. to spray for weeds
again. We have been trying to get the money together to put a new fence
around it. It is very large and the stones are scattered about. We are
thinging about having someone one come in with a lift and move all the
stones out and make it about 1/2 the size it is, and put a new fence up,
I don't think anyone has been buried there since 1920, We would like to
lay concrete slabs and lay the stones down on that. Does anyone know if
I have the right to do this. Or is there someone I have to contact. I
hope someone out their has some answers for me, I'm about at my wits
end. Roberta

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