Jul 24, 2007

Historic family cemeteries risk overgrowth and destruction


(Examiner) ... Land owners often buried family members on their land rather than pay for the town cemetery, said Barbara Sieg, who helped found the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites Inc. The land is later divided and sold, and often the name of the owner is lost along the way.
State laws prohibit developers from building on top of a graveyard. However, plots are destroyed and hundreds disappear every year because of loopholes, Sieg said. Continued.

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