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From: Linda Thompson <>
Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] Butler County/Morgan Township Cemetery
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 22:10:26 -0500

I would like to know more about this law where the township trustees are
supposed to be responsible for old cemeteries in their township. I have
it on very good authority that the Hanover Twp Trustees, here in Butler
County, allowed an old cemetery to be bulldozed last year for a golf
course!

Thanks for any info.

Linda Thompson



Lowell Klaber wrote:
>
> Jim, if this cemetery is in Ohio - we have a law that the township or the
> city is responsible for any old cemetery that is no longer active. My
> husband restores old cemeteries for townships etc. Perhaps someone should
> give someone a push to clean this one up
> Delores Klaber
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 2:33 PM
> Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Butler County/Morgan Township Cemetery
>
> >Today I went to the St. Charles (Methodist) Cemetery on the road from
> >Millville to Brookville (I think it is Ohio 129). The cemetery looks very
> >nice, although I judge a number of stones have been lost through the years.
> >
> >About 2/3 miles down the road (toward Indiana) and on the same side (north
> >side) of the road is an abandoned cemetery in extremely poor shape. It is
> >about 100-200 yards west of a railroad crossing, if that helps, and would
> >just be in the edge of Morgan township (as St. Charles Cemetery is).
> >
> >Does anyone recognize from this description what cemetery I am referring
> to?
> >Was it one that Hazel Stroup included in her documentation? Was there a
> >church there at one time? Only one stone is visible from the road. There
> >are another half dozen still standing once you work you way into the place,
> >and several partial and broken stones. The trees range from two to six
> inches
> >in diameter, so this cemetery has been uncared for for many years. There is
> a
> >concrete wall along the front of the cemetery, which is the only evidence
> >that anything is there. Can anyone identify this cemetery, who is buried
> >there, etc.??
> >
> >Jim
> >

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