[TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...

[Laura Johnson]

the ones of the bones?  NO, not yet.  I will add them when I get a 
chance.  I am still playing catch-up after tax season and trying to get 
a new yard under control at this house.  Too much pruning, weeding, etc 
to be done to clean up what hasn't been done for year

anniegoe wrote:
> Is there a place on the TI site to view the cemetery pictures?
> Ann
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...
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>> When a family no longer pays the rent on the grave, the grave is
>> recycled and rented to another family or person.  The bones that are
>> removed are buried in the ossuary or in the center of each section.  If
>> you look at the pictures, you will see that each section of the cemetery
>> is a square with the tombstones/graves going around the outside edge
>> only.  In the center of those squares are graves of the recycled.
>>
>> I don't remember who it was when we were there in a group in 2006, but
>> someone took pictures of the bones being removed from a grave and carted
>> in bins away.  The pictures were pretty graphic
>>
>> Sally Glenn wrote:
>>     
>>> Laura,
>>> I found the cemetery pictures outstanding.You made the comment that they 
>>> are
>>> recycled. Would you please explain? My mother said that when whe was a 
>>> child
>>> there, she rembers baskets of bones.
>>> Thank you.
>>> Sally Ann Glenn
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
>>> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Mark Nelson
>>>>
>>>> There is only ONE cemetery in Termini Imerese.  I don't know about 
>>>> Trabia
>>>>
>>>> If you scroll down to the bottom of the following page you will see how
>>>> the graves are recycled.  Finding the gravesites of ancestors who died
>>>> before 1900 will be an almost impossible task.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.termini-imerese.org/Reunion/2006TI/Cemetery.htm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> QuikSilvez at aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I need the list of the cemeteries in Sicily,  especially in Trabia and
>>>>> Termini Imerese...
>>>>>
>>>>> ~Mark Nelson
>>>>>
>>>>>
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