[or-roots] cemetery destruction

[Leslie Chapman]

First of all my apologies for not being able to spell Russellville.

We have had a number of comments about cemeteries at risk etc, thought I
would pass on a story about one that suffered a rather bad end in the San
Juan islands;

this is an excerpt from my baby sisters story of tracking down the grave of
my great grandfather Milan Melvin;

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Next we heard of an older graveyard at Second Sound and went there.  Some
sort of fair was going on there that included, conveniently for us, a
history booth.  Much to our disappointment, we learned that the pioneer
graveyard had been on such a beautiful building site (a cliff called Madrona
Point) that later comers has simply gathered up the grave markers and thrown
them into the bay.
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Kind of makes a person want to track down the heirs of all those stone
tossers and ask them how they enjoy the fruits of grave desecration.

Les