| CEMETERIES:
"My
great-grandfather's sister, Mary Jane Carson, who was a dwarf,
was in the Poor House in Bedford county TN late in the
1800's or early 1900's. After going to Shelbyville, TN, we
discovered the poorhouse was gone, but when a
family tried to build a new home, the cemetery for the poorhouse
was discovered. According to people at the courthouse an article
was put in the local paper asking if relatives wanted to
"claim remains" before the graves were moved. There
was supposedly a list of the dead which must have included a
cemetery location of individual graves or else the article would
not have asked for relatives to come forward and claim the
remains. [Note: That is not necessarily a correct
assumption. We know of several such announcements which
have been made even when the only documentation available was
a list of known buried -- with no grave
markers. PHL ] No one knows where the list
is. I checked the Commissioner's Reports, which pertain to the
Poorhouse, mentioning hay, watermelons, etc. sold for revenue.
There is a mention of how many "inmates" died within a
certain period, only stating
whether they were male or female. I was told that no one came
forward and the graves were removed to an unknown location.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Even if there is only a mass grave
somewhere, I would like to know where they are." 
Dalena J. Nichols Dalenajn@gateway.net
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