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Subject: Abandoned vs. neglected cemeteries
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:29:42 EST

Another list sent this snippet from Cemetery-L. The statement is accurate, as
the first cemetery in Van Wert was converted to a VFW park after the bodies
were exhumed and moved. It certainly was neglected until this action was
taken.

Don Kear
Van Wert Ohio County Coordinator, www.rootsweb.com/~ohvanwer/index.html
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The Cemetery-L list is not a name research list. It's purpose is saving
neglected cemeteries.

"BTW folks who are serious about cemetery preservation do not *ever* use
the expression "abandoned cemetery" with any kind of seriousness. The only
way you will ever see a real-life abandoned cemetery is if the people buried
there get up and ambulate to another site! There is also the case of a party
actually exhuming all the burials and relocating them at another site. These
are
the only cases that I can conjure of a real-life abandoned cemetery.

The cemetery you've recently located is merely neglected. ;-)
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Michael Emery
Information Systems Coordinator
Save Texas Cemeteries, Inc.
http://members.aol.com/savegrave/";

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