Accumulating Evidence

the next topic i'd like to discuss is ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE.  here's what i have so far, gleaned from savinggraves.com (my own responses are in RED -- if i don't know, then i didn't answer):

One of the first things that you need to do is to start accumulating whatever evidence there may be from the past as proof of the size and number of burials. You may find records of the cemetery in various locations. You must be sure to utilize every record available to you at the county or local library, in the city and county offices, as well as important family documents found by tracing and contacting many pioneer descendants. The one thing that you pass by could possibly hold exactly the information that you need to save the cemetery.  Questions that you must look into include:

• Are there previous tombstone inventories from earlier decades?  (the KY historical society has a list which i have merged with that of marie's friend, and so far have 172-174 names.)
• Are there any indexed listings of burials in the county or local newspapers? Have there been any articles printed on this cemetery in the county or local newspapers at any time in the past?  (i have sent for a copy of the society's newsletter, "bluegrass roots," which has an article from the early 1990s about PRC.  i have not seen any of the area's newspapers, so i cannot say about them.  however, i do have contact addresses if someone would like to volunteer to contact them...  HINT HINT)
• Does the local historical or Genealogy society have records on these cemeteries?  (to my knowledge, barbara cowan has produced the only cemetery book for that county -- marie, is this correct, or do you know of other cemetery books for fleming county?)
• Were there ever any county indigent burials made there where the coroner or public administrator's office may have records?
• Are there any County or Local History books or publications that would have records or mention of the cemetery within?
  
  In the case of potential development on the cemetery property
• Was an Environmental Impact Report ever written for this development project? 
• What does the section on Cultural Resources say about the cemetery? The watershed/drainage effects? 
• Has the State Trust for Historic Preservation been notified of this potential loss?

If you have names of some of those buried there, sign up for all the genealogy lists for each state (ie. through Rootsweb, such as CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com and send a NOTICE TO POSSIBLE DESCENDANT FAMILY OF THOSE BURIED IN ??? CEMETERY. State succinctly what is happening and provide the names of people to contact to complain about this. (If you don't make it easy for them, chances are they won't come forward.).  (i posted notices on the surname forums on genforum.com for the surnames on the list which marie's friend [whose name escapes me momentarily], but not the added surnames from the historical society.  i will try to do that this weekend.  i do not know of any surname mail lists, however...  does anyone else?  that might be a good venue, also.)

what i'd like to do is to keep our evidence on both my web site as well as lori's, just so our eggs aren't in one basket. 

scot

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The list I copied at the Historical Society has the same names.  Barb's book is no longer in the Covington Library. Apparently it was loaned to the library by a friend of Barb's and I guess retrieved.  But there is one in the Fleming County Library. That is the only book I have found and believe it is the only book. Barb Cowan and her husband belong to the Fleming County Historical Society, so do I but am only a mailbox member and receive very little information.  Caren Prater, the Fleming County genealogist, is active in that group.

Give me a list of the Newspapers that Caren gave you.  The Covington Library has some of the old newspapers on microfiche and I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't find some at the  Flemingsburg Library.  My problem is that I am going West in a few weeks so have a short time to do research until I come back in April.

Karen should  have access to any county records on indigent burials.

Bill Tally's books "Talley's Papers" are the only books, I know about that mention the cemetery. That doesn't mean there aren't others.  

I don't believe that there is or has been any development been considered.  Plus the fact that apparently there is no recorded owner of the land according to Caren who researched that at the courthouse.  Best answers that I can give at this time.

If we put any thing in the paper, The Messenger is the most read.  It goes to every home.  The Flemingsburg Gazette is an old newspaper, I'm not sure how old.  My parents always subscribed to it. I'm sure it has a good circulation.  My cousins up in Ohio subscribe to it to keep in touch with their friends and families in the Fleming County area.   Their past copies and some copies of obituaries are on Microfiche at UK.  I think there may be some in the Fleming County Library. I doubt they go back far enough to be useful to us.
Marie