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From: "Barb Stahr" <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Endangered Graveyards (moving them ?)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:04:04 -0400
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Thank you for sharing what a cemetery is. It is a keeper.

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Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Endangered Graveyards (moving them ?)


>
> Hi Betty
> I think that it behooves all of us, as genealogists, to take acre of our
> ancestral cemeteries. So many have been "lost" to overgrowth. They are
> so
> completely obliterated with brush that they are no longer visable.
> It would be an excellent community service project for young people,
> killing
> two birds with one stone...community service and getting a younger
> generation interested in their history.
> You and others might enjoy this...
> This Is A Cemetery Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded -
> families
> are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is undisguised.
> This
> is a cemetery. Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
> historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
> Testimonies of
> devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute
> to
> accomplishments and to the life - not death - of a loved one. The
> cemetery is
> homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to
> the living. A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
> yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists
> because every
> life is worth loving and remembering - always. Compliments of Fairmount
> Memorial Park, Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Riverside Memorial Park and
> Spokane
> Memorial Gardens, all in Spokane, WA and _John Slaughter_
> (mailto:)
>
> In a message dated 8/12/2007 7:52:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thank you for telling us about this web site:
>
> http://lawlib.state.ma.us/burial.html
>
> Unfortunately, one of the links, the one mentioning moving a graveyard,
> is
> broken.
>
> But, I tried another link and found this page which lists "endangered
> cemeteries."
>
> http://www.savinggraves-us.org/ma/
>
> This might be an interesting link for someone:
>
> http://lawlib.state.ma.us/faqburial.html#wife
>
> Just an FYI.
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
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