CEMETERY LAYS GROUNDWORK TO SELL LONG-ABANDONED PLOTS.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - The Lancaster Cemetery cemetery, name used by early Christians to designate a place for burying the dead. First applied in Christian burials in the Roman catacombs, the word cemetery came into general usage in the 15th cent. is seeking to have declared abandoned about 160 burial burial, disposal of a corpse in a grave or tomb. The first evidence of deliberate burial was found in European caves of the Paleolithic period. Prehistoric discoveries include both individual and communal burials, the latter indicating that pits or ossuaries were plots that were purchased more than 50 years ago but have not been used. The cemetery has not been able to find or contact the owners of the lots, some of which were purchased as long ago as 1903, or their family members. "There is a provision that if there's no contact with the purchasers of the plots for over 50 years, and the plots haven't been used, then you can declare them abandoned, so that the cemetery district can sell them again," said Tom Ward, the attorney for Lancaster Cemetery District. "We have some plots that were purchased 70 and 80 years ago." A hearing on whether to declare the lots abandoned is scheduled for Jan. 19 in Department D in Lancaster Superior Court. One of the owners listed in the filing is the late Chris Costa Sherri, for whom a building is named at the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . He died after moving from the Antelope Valley to Ventura County, fair officials said. Other lot owners most likely moved out of the area and died somewhere else, officials said. "Some of the older folks might go back to where they came from, and family members bury Bury (bĕ`rē), city (1991 pop. 60,785) and metropolitan district, NE England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Irwell River and linked by canal with Bolton and Manchester. them there," said Roger Hemme, one of three trustees of the public cemetery district who was appointed by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. The cemetery was established in 1885 when a 6-year-old girl was buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. there, Hemme said. Jane Reynolds, after whom a Lancaster park is named, and her family are interred there also. The cemetery became a district cemetery in 1949, which means a certain portion of property taxes of residents who live within the district goes to support the cemetery, Hemme said. "It's non-profit, therefore the cost of burial is less expensive than at a private cemetery." Hemme said. The cemetery district periodically goes through the process of reviewing its records to see which lots have had no activity. "Any plot can be declared abandoned if the owner is unknown," Hemme said. "It's strictly a business process, I guess, if you will. We review that every few years." A similar hearing was held about 10 years ago at which no one showed up, Ward said. "Nobody in 10 years has come back and said, `What happened to my lot?' " Ward said. |
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