I'm certainly not claiming this is right at all, in fact it's very bad indeed. Lord knows how many graves have been desecrated because the folks were buried on private property. They won't let you move them to a legitimate cemetary?
If you need a signature or a letter written, count me in. On Aug 25, 7:52 pm, SgtUSMC <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a history buff and do genealogy. I really love reading the old > books from the 1800's. A recent one I have found tells the life of > Bill Arp. > > We have worked, for years, to find information on my wife's ancestor > who served in the Revolutionary War. We finally found his grave a few > months ago. I won't go into the details because I know you really > aren't interested in a long story. To sum it up, we found the grave > and were assured we could visit it and place a marker on it. There > was > an unmarked grave next to it which we thought was his wife. I'll just > copy a portion of the e-mail which gave us the latest update. To say > the least, I am really pissed off. I don't know what to do about > this. > I know that laws were violated. > > Excerpt from e-mail: My GGGGGranduncle, Abraham Helton, was a > veteran > of Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War and a Cherokee Indian. > He > is buried at Frogtown Winery, 3300 Damascus Church Road , Dahlonega , > GA 30533 , phone number 706-865-0687. The owners are Craig and Cydney > Kritzer. This is private property. > > The problem is that his grave and that of his Cherokee wife Katie Owl > Helton have been desecrated by Frogtown Winery employees. The > headstones were dug up and graves plowed over to plant grape vines. > The owners deign knowledge of the graves but the previous owner, > Marlan Turner, 706-865-4599, informed them of the graves. Richard > Hester, 706-878-8595, their Vineyard Manager, informed them that the > graves had been desecrated by the "Guatemalan" employees against his > orders and a marker should be placed on the graves. Mr. Craig Kritzer > agreed with this but later changed his mind. JB Jones, 706-865-3906, > a member of the Georgia Council on American Indian Affairs, remembers > seeing the graves when he was young. I have been refused entry onto > their property to replace the removed stones from Abraham and Katie’s > graves with a small flat stone that is furnished to veterans by the > Veterans Administration. Abraham died in 1843 and his wife Katie in > 1840. > > As a veteran of Viet Nam< /st1:place> with two Purple Hearts I find > it > very offensive that anyone would desecrate a grave of any veteran. > Abraham Helton did not only fight for his country but for its > independence. In years past any Indian grave was open game for > souvenir hunters. The graves were violated just to look for some > trinkets that they could sell for profit. > > I am asking for help to place one single flat headstone, containing > both of their names, on the graves of Abraham Helton and Katie Owl > Helton and have reasonable descendants visitation rights. > > If this was your Mother’s grave, how would you feel if someone > discarded her headstone because it was inconvenient to them? All I > am > asking is for the grave of another human being be treated with > respect > with dignity. > > <end of e-mail> > > I'm so pissed I could spit. Why the hell does this country allow > graves of Revolutionary soldiers to be desecrated? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
