From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jan 2 11:05:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k02I5Xg3005752; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:05:33 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k02I5WCU004816 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:05:32 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k02FdEFI001947 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:39:14 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k02FdEX0001946 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:39:14 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k02Ed5FI001813 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:39:05 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k02H5DKR024061 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:05:13 -0700 X-Envelope-From: goldiew@centurytel.net Mon Jan 2 10:05:13 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k02H5Dg3024052 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:05:13 -0700 Received: from msa3-mx.centurytel.net (msa3-mx.centurytel.net [69.179.208.43]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k02H58M2011281 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:05:13 -0700 Received: from acerdesktop ([72.161.248.8]) by msa3-mx.centurytel.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k02H56kl015926 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:05:06 -0600 Message-ID: <000f01c60fbe$85f274a0$2f01a8c0@myhome.westell.com> Reply-To: "Goldie Williams" From: "Goldie Williams" To: References: <200601020003.k0203UDl002178@lists5.rootsweb.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:03:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0552-4, 12/30/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id k02H5Dg3024052 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] one little cemetery Me again.... I just want to express how grateful I am to those who dedicate time to clean up old cemeteries..... I have no transportation and can't cross the room without getting breathless... so I'm doubly grateful for those who can... I have brother who now offers to take mw some places and so I was able to get to the cemeteries this year on Memorial day...I don't know how it is anywhere else but here in the Ozarks, the cemeteries are meeting places for families..many times it's the only time relatives see each otherand it turns into a family reunion picnic at a local park or someone's house.... and everybody trades their genealogy notes... There is one very small, very old cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried and it was hard to find for all the weeds, etc....most stones overturned, etc...a real orphan... and I always wished someone would take it over...but there was no way I could do anyting(there are probably plenty of you who could have done more in my circumstances, but bear in mind, this was before I got the genealogy bug) This year, we had a hard time finding it..because we were looking for the regular mess it was...when we found it, it was beautiful....grass mowed, weeds pulled, stones upright, fence repaired.... some of those uprooted stones belong to some civil war hereos.... so to anyone out there who has donated time or resources to reclaiming these old places, anywhere, you have my thanks... Goldie Goldie Williams, Living in Missouri Ozarks