[TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...

[anniegoe]

I meant the Sicily cemeteries!
Ann
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...


> 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...
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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