> Hopefully someone, either in the family or for some genealogy
> organization, wrote down the inscriptions before they became illegible
> and kept the record...

If they did, we are not aware of it.  I am guessing they could have become
illegible before my father was even born.

> One hopes that the guy learned his lesson.... Is the law only to protect
> tended graveyards, or does it apply to any cemetery...?

That is a good question.  I am not sure.  This one was tended, although I
worry that it might eventually not be as my distant cousin is getting up in
age and no one in my immediate family lives near there.

Mike

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 * SLMR 2.1a * The flush toilet is the basis of western civilization.