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From: Jeanie <>
Subject: [TX-Cem] [Fwd: Fw: Desecration of Tombstones]
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 05:30:56 -0500


There are two messages here. Please scroll down and read the second one and
if possible, please come out to the Hardin County courthouse on October 1 and
support the Alexander descendants in their fight for access to their
grandparent's grave site.

Jeanie

wrote:

> The following message from Mary Seals should be important to all of us.
>
> Perhaps something worse is being denied access to a cemetery where your
> grandparents
> are buried. Against the law? - Yes. The suit for access to the
> "Alexander Cemetery" will
> be held October 1, 2001 at 9:00 AM - Civil Suit with trial by jury.
> Plan to attend and
> show support for the Texas Cemetery Laws. I will write more on this
> later.
> Wileda Prejean
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:
> To:
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:47:11 EDT
> Subject: Desecration of Tombstones
> Message-ID: <>
>
> Imagine going to the cemetery where your loved ones ,maybe your great
> grandparents have been buried for years. You know their plots by the
> tall,old
> stones your great grandpa made himself so many years ago, and not finding
>
> them? They're gone and so are the Jasmine bushes your Mother planted that
> you
> picked flowers off every year. THis happened to a friend of mine just
> recently,at Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont,Texas. My friend went to the
> office
> at the cemetery to speak to someone about their disappearance. She was
> rudely told that the concrete stones were old and deteriorated and they
> could
> do whatever they pleased with them. My friend went to talk to a few
> funeral
> directors in the area and was told that it couldn't be done. It was
> illegal.
> Well, it has been done! If it can happen in Jefferson County,it can
> happen in
> any county! We have enough trouble with vandals who don't respect our
> loved
> ones resting place without cemeteries doing it,too. THis is Desecration
> of
> graves and I thought it was against the law. If a stone is allowed to be
> removed because it becomes an eyesore to the cemetery,what comes next?
> What
> about our future generations trying to find their ancestors and there are
> no
> markers? I think it is a crime to allow this to happen and I urge
> everyone to
> go check their ancestor's graves often; and report these things to the
> authorities . Our Heritage and Genealogical Societies should band
> together
> and put a stop to this. Sincerely,Mary Seales.

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