I am very interested in hearing from anybody who has
any comments, whatsoever, on the information contained in this site or the state
of the site in general. I’d love to set
up a dialogue with anyone who has even the slightest possible relationship to
any of the individuals buried in here.
Firstly, I am looking for information to unanswered
questions (see lingering questions) and to correct the
innumerable mistakes I most certainly made in my research.
Secondly, I’m looking for help. The state of this cemetery is an absolute
disgrace, not only to the people buried here but to any relatives or friends
who may be interested in visiting their loved ones and paying their respects
(there were signs on a few graves of just that on my visit). As I stated in the Introduction, I
spoke with the son-in-law of the land owner and he is interested in doing right
by this cemetery. We discussed several
possibilities for future efforts toward improving the state of the
cemetery.
In the short term, we discussed getting together in
late Winter or very early Spring of 2008 with as many of my relatives and other
individuals related to the Alexander Cemetery and doing a “simple”
clean-up. Nothing
fancy, just cutting and burning trees and brush. This time frame is essential not only as the
plants will be dormant but even more so, the insects.
More in the long term, we discussed the possibly of
making a small parking area to the south of the cemetery between any graves and
the gravel road. The two ways people are
entering the cemetery now are both less than ideal (I took a third by going through
the barbed wire). They are either
cutting through his back yard (sometime driving cars) to the old entrance, near
James Osborn’s Family Plot or they are driving to the east of the cemetery
through another persons property and entering there. The problem I saw with the East entrance is
that William E. Miller’s grave is right in the
middle of the path and it is only a matter of time until someone drives over
his gravestone and breaks it.
At some point I will probably try to raise money to
offset as much of any costs that will most certainly will
be necessary to set this place completely right. At this time, I have no idea how to do this
so any advice anyone might have in that area or info as to any “public” moneys
that might be available would be much appreciated.