-=> Quoting Mike Powell to Joe Mackey on 08-17-19  15:38 <=-

 >   When people lived on farms mostly the loved ones were also buried on the
 > property.
 >   My old family home there were many buried near the house.
 >   When the old homestead was sold many years ago the new owners, who could
 > care less, took the tombstones and broke them up to use as gravel in a drive
 > way!
 >   There is now no idea who is buried where there.  :(

 MP> We have an old family cemetary which has switched hands.  Most of the
 MP> gravestones are no longer legible, but my great-great-great
 MP> grandfather's still was last time I was there.  He was a Methodist
 MP> preacher, so the UMC had made him a nice headstone at some point.

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

 MP> In recent years, the farm changed hands again.  The little cemetary
 MP> was separated from the rest of the farm by an extra fence.  The fellow
 MP> took it down and started moving the headstones.  Luckily, a family
 MP> member who is in that area & who still tends to it caught him.  In
 MP> Kentucky, that is actually illegal, even if it is on your property. 
 MP> The guy had already been warned at least once, so he got fined.
 MP> Supposedly, he tried to play dumb but the family member pointed out
 MP> that it was obviously being tended to since the grass was cut.

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

 MP> Since that grandfather's father's grave has long since been lost (we
 MP> think it is under a small strip mall in Pike County, KY), keeping that
 MP> cemetary from being forgotten is somewhat important.

It's always important to preserve the memories of the past... it gives
roots.... :)

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