[TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...

[anniegoe]

Someone asked about a cemetery in Termini and I thought they saw a picture 
or article about it. So I want to see it.
Ann
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] Cemeteries in Sicily...


> which ones are you talking about?
>
> anniegoe wrote:
>> 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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