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From: "Jean Schroeder" <>
Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] Re: Snowfield Plantation/Bryan Cemetery
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:42:38 -0400
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Are there existing laws in NC protecting family plots? I have been
concerned about my great grandparents graves. They were buried on what was
their land (over a 100 years ago) which is now a wooded area owned by a
large corporation. The headstones are still there. I am sure the caskets
and bodies are dust by now, but it is still their final resting place.
Jean
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Subject: [NCBERTIE] Re: Snowfield Plantation/Bryan Cemetery


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> I don't know this for sure and I really wished I did, but it seems to be a
dead end. From What I do know for sure is that the cemetery was destroyed,
the land has been developed and I think the bones of my ancestors are
sitting beneath someone's house or something!
> It's a shame that people do this kind of destruction to cemeteries, but
unfortunately the laws we have now protecting burial sites didn't exist
then. By the time I got into researching my family it was gone. I don't even
know if anything was published in the local newspaper to try and locate any
descendants of these particular Bryan's or not.
> A tragedy like this should be a message to everyone, to take care of your
ancestors and their resting place.
> Some people have no regard for things like this and I think it's sad.
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