Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Why should I care? Those buried in the cemetery are not my relatives. They are not buried on my property. They are not even my race. Yet, it all has to do with what my family taught me when I was young.

During visits to my grandparent’s farm I learned to be respectful, careful, and thankful of things. So, I choose to respect those who have moved into another life and lay resting in a cemetery. I am concerned about their resting places being flooded at some point in the future. I know those buried there have been under water in years past. I would like to begin an effort to save the resting place of persons who have lived in the area of my home, worked the land making bricks, and yet today remain unnoticed.

The problem is that creek water laps the land where these people are buried. Another neighbor now passed cared about this cemetery. How do I know? I had conversations with this gentleman. He owned a business near my home and on many occasions wa...