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Title: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Ghost1 on Sep 29 2007 - 07:43PM

Hi all, I just thought I might share this picture with you.  As I have said before, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is in very bad shape.  Vandals have either destroyed or stolen every tombstone in the whole gaveyard,  except for this one..........The Last One Standing.  This is the "Fulton" Tombstone

                         

(http://www.bachelors-grove.com/bachelorsgrove1.gif)

This is a picture of the entrance to the graveyard, as it looked years ago.  Today the gates are broken and the sign is gone

Here is the picture of "The Fulton Tombstone", the last tombstone still standing.

(http://www.bachelors-grove.com/fulton.jpg)

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Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Darkone on Oct 05 2007 - 07:47PM

It's truly terrible the shape of this cemetery, no wonder it's so haunted.   Why does no one take care of this place, not even mow the lawn.  The upkeep of this cemetery is a disgrace, there are people buried here.  They deserve respect!

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Rivers on Oct 27 2007 - 04:05PM

I agree with Darkone....After my last visit it was disheartening to see the abuse these graves have taken and the neglect by the city to protect the cemetary. I love a good ghost hunt as much as anyone, however it is senseless to desicrate these graves.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Colleen2510 on Oct 29 2007 - 12:49AM

 :V: Yeah that kind of sickens me that our culture doesn't have any more respect than this for the final resting place of our ancestors. Once something can no longer bring in a profit it is forgotten about until someone dares to try and fenagle a buck out it somehow and then that's prolly how we wind up sharing living quarters with some pissed off spirit..... cho! 

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Damon on Dec 06 2007 - 12:10AM

Consider the property surrounding the graveyard is under the care of the cook county forest preserve (which is why they patrol it) and seeing how cook county has neglected most of the forest preserves throught the years (like the toboggan slides at swallow cliff) surely they cant find any money to deal with the graveyard.
In an exerpt from Brad L. Bettenhausen, President of the Tinley Park Historical Society, it is explained that the cemetery is now under the supervision and responsibility of the Cemetery Trustees (under the Real Estate Management Office) of the Cook County Board. The County Board was approached by an aged Clarence Fulton in the fall of 1975 to take charge of the care and maintenance of the old cemetery. Mr. Fulton had previously requested Bremen Township's assistance in caring for the cemetery in 1967, but had been turned down. Clarence Fulton indicated that there was a Bachelor Grove Cemetery Association, but no official record appears to exist for the organization. In researching the history of the legal title to the cemetery at that time, it was determined that title probably still rested in the hands of the descendants of Edward M. Everden, since no deed could be found for the cemetery itself and subsequent deeds and property transfers specifically excluded the one acre cemetery. After clarifying the legal description and boundaries of the cemetery and obtaining clear title through condemnation procedures, Cook County assumed responsibility for the cemetery in about 1976. Through intergovernmental agreements, maintenance of the cemetery is now shared with the Cook County Forest Preserve District. According to an unsubstantiated account, the Chicago Archdiocese of the Catholic Church has also provided some maintenance for the cemetery from time to time on behalf of the County in years past.
I have also come across a web site from a group called the Grover Restoration Project that seems to try once a year to get a permit from the forest preserve to go to the cemetary and clean it and the path leading to it of overgrowth and trash. So I guess there are some people who do care about what happens. Maybe we can also get involved. I would be much more willing to go there with lots of people than i would with just a few. (yea I'll admit it - I'm a big chicken)  :Y:

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Colleen2510 on Dec 06 2007 - 01:09AM

I am totally with you Damon.  I like your idea.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Maggpie on Dec 06 2007 - 01:12AM

When we were there in beginning of November there were a few big garbage bags right out front of the entrance full of trasah.  It looked as if people were trying to clean it up a little then.  I really hope they keep it up.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: The Shadow on Mar 27 2008 - 12:36PM

I know a few people who do the restoration project every year.

If we dont take action no one wil

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Tenbears on Apr 02 2008 - 03:38AM

Very kewl!, I like the pix'z of how things used to look.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Marion76 on Sep 04 2008 - 03:56PM

I went there for the first time on Saturday and saw how sad it is there. I can't believe how people can do such a thing to such a sacred place.  :^( I would love to help clean that place up. We should start a petition to get the county to DO something to take care of BG. And in our free time, we should go help clean up the crap occasionally.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Exzyle2k on Sep 05 2008 - 06:16PM

Marion, lookie here!!!! ---> Clicky Me! (http://www.bachelors-grove.com/bgf/index.php?topic=979.0)

I'm trying to get information from the county regarding the caretaker status of the Grove, and hoping to move it back into private hands, people who actually care.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Marion76 on Sep 06 2008 - 12:50AM

Sounds cool!

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Rachael on Sep 12 2008 - 02:01PM

I just went for the first time with my daughter on Sunday, and we have vowed to never go there again without gloves and garbage bags to pick up trash as we go.  Really, take your beer and condoms elsewhere! And due to the drunken idiots who were having a gay old time running around screaming ghostly noises, I may have to bring a stun gun too.  ..sigh... I have a very hard time not hating people sometimes....

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Tommyboy67 on Sep 12 2008 - 03:13PM

That's the reason why the BGC is so haunted!  The ghosts are pissed off about the vandalism by the punk kids & the neglect by the county.


Rachael, You rock!!!!!!  bo

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Marion76 on Sep 12 2008 - 03:25PM

Quote from: Rachael on Sep 12 2008 - 02:01PM  

I just went for the first time with my daughter on Sunday, and we have vowed to never go there again without gloves and garbage bags to pick up trash as we go.  Really, take your beer and condoms elsewhere! And due to the drunken idiots who were having a gay old time running around screaming ghostly noises, I may have to bring a stun gun too.  ..sigh... I have a very hard time not hating people sometimes....

=D> You said it! I've been there once so far and I was apalled at the sight of the place. It's so sad. Some people are just sick and have nothing better to do.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Tommyboy67 on Sep 12 2008 - 03:30PM

Safety In Numbers.  We should all go together...  Moron proof our trip.  I have a stun gun.

This weekend, my son turns 13. I am the father of a teenager!    cho   LOL!  Seems just like yesterday he was a baby. :^(

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Rachael on Sep 12 2008 - 03:33PM

rofl..... I've been waiting for someone to bow down to me my whole life, thank you for making that dream a reality.   LOL

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Marion76 on Sep 12 2008 - 03:56PM

Quote from: tommyboy67 on Sep 12 2008 - 03:30PM  

Safety In Numbers.  We should all go together...  Moron proof our trip.  I have a stun gun.

This weekend, my son turns 13. I am the father of a teenager!    cho   LOL!  Seems just like yesterday he was a baby. :^(

Great! You bring the stun gun and I'll bring my horse whip.  LOL Just kidding. About bringing it, I mean.  cho I'm a perv.
Anyway, congrats on being the father of a teenager - and to Rachael too! I'll be joining that club in December. NOT looking forward to it!  ;)

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Tommyboy67 on Sep 12 2008 - 04:24PM

Marion, you look way too young to be the parent of a teenager.

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Marion76 on Sep 12 2008 - 04:36PM

 emb Thank you! I'm a young mom. I had her when I was 19. But I know I don't look my age. I think it's the hispanic in me. Those hispanics never seem to age.  LOL

Thank you, again!!  :^:

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Ace45 on May 10 2011 - 04:17PM

Is there any files by chance that tellyou where people are buried it would be a really neat project to mark the graves and do a serious clean up maybe barb wire the fence and rebuild the sign

Title: Re: The Last Tombstone Standing
Post by: Ghost1 on May 11 2011 - 08:17PM

Quote from: Ace45 on May 10 2011 - 04:17PM  

Is there any files by chance that tellyou where people are buried it would be a really neat project to mark the graves and do a serious clean up maybe barb wire the fence and rebuild the sign

There are a few incomplete drawings, nothing official......