[or-roots] Historic Cemeteries

[Betty Moreland]

`Any graves over a certain age you have to get special permission due to the diseases that can be released. As  for the attitude of people In can relate to everyones displeasure. Last year it tooknumerouscalls to get my uncle to sign for permission too cremate my aunt's remains. Washington requires for  permission to cremate. It entails a spouse, children or brothers and sisters to give written permission. Even when the deceased requested cremation. This year it took a lot of begging to get some of my brothers and sisters to sign  a release so our mother could be cremated. Some would rather let the body set in storage for howeverlong. So I appreciate the problems of ffinding grave  yards. My family has three different locations for my grandmother in one cemetary she died in 1920  or21.



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susie 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Historic Cemeteries


  AMEN
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
    Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:06 PM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Historic Cemeteries


    I remember as teenager back in the early 50s when they build Folsom Dam and Lake near me. They spent days just removing all of the known graves from the valley and putting them all together at a new site with the remains and the stones. It was quite a job and the new cemetery is quite big but the relatives can still go and see there ancestors and that's what its all about. I don't know when we took this terrible attitude toward the dead but I think we need to do all we can to see that Oregon gets new laws that protect them. It should flat out be against the law to desecrate a grave or move it without the permission of the descendants and or a court order and then they should only be moved not just plowed under and forgot.

    Walt Davies
    Cooper Hollow Farm
    Monmouth, OR 97361
    503 623-0460 

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