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At 09:15 3/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:40 PM 3/17/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>Jeannine, this is correct for Ohio. The instigation for my previous queries
>about initialed footstones and coffin faceplates resulted from a Columbus
>lawyer taking a backhoe to an abandoned cemetery (latest grave, 1878). I
>had done the Phase I survey and recommended that the developer avoid the
>site. Instead, they hired a lawyer whose credentials consisted primarily of
>having compiled a booklet on Ohio cemetery law. Six months after the
>"removal," I happened to visit the site and found dozens of human bones
>strewn over the surface-- humeri, vertebrae, ribs, tibiae, skull and pelvis
>fragments-- you name it. The Ohio SHPO cited the fact that the Historic
>Preservation Act excepts historic cemeteries as their reason ("excuse") for
>not getting involved.
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>I finally contacted the judge who had agreed to the attorney's request to
>remove the burials and asked him to appoint someone to finish the job. The
>remaining grave was removed last week (the initials on the footstone faced
>out). The burial was a good six feet deep, in a gravel esker, and I don't
>think probing would have located it-- no grave outline, either.
Has anyone considered going to the press with this info? After all, these
unqualified people are REALLY, TRULY involved in destroying one of our
most reliable sources of human history. What if this had been done in Egypt,
over the lands where they found the pyramid worker's housing and burial
areas. We'd all still believe the pyramids were built with 100% slave labor!
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