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County seeks missing remains

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 30 April 2005
Employee: Bone fragments from old cemetery not in warehouse BY EMMA PEREZ-TREVIÃƒâ€˜O The Brownsville Herald April 29, 2005 Ã¢â‚¬â€ Human remains uncovered last year from BrownsvilleÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s first platted cemetery on East Monroe Street could be lost. Cameron County staff on Thursday was not able to determine the whereabouts of the bone fragments, which construction crews unearthed in September during utility work at a county-owned parking lot across from the Dancy Building. The county halted the utility project after the Texas Historical Commission directed the county to examine the area and collect remains. Ã¢â‚¬Å“I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know if they are in a box, or crate, or filing cabinet,Ã¢â‚¬Â said Frank Bejarano, the countyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s program development and management director. The cemetery, which dates back to 1848, was examined by archaeologist John Keller of Los Fresnos, who found in November that up to 700 graves could be there. Bejarano understands that Keller labeled and catalogued the remains and placed them in plastic bags. Bejarano thinks that these were stored at the county warehouse off Monroe Street while the county waits to re-inter them. But warehouse supervisor Marcelino Ibarra said Thursday afternoon that Ã¢â‚¬Å“there are no bones at the warehouse.Ã¢â‚¬Â He said he heard from county employees that Keller took the remains, or that the bones had been placed back in the graves. Keller was not immediately available for comment. County spokesman Remi Garza said that Commissioners Court has not decided how the remains will be memorialized. A non-denominational ceremony is planned, but Ã¢â‚¬Å“the court has yet to decide what a fitting marker will be,Ã¢â‚¬Â Garza said. He didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know if the remains had been interred, but said that the graves have been covered. Anthropologist Tony Zavaleta, vice president for external affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, was safekeeping some of the remains in October, but he said Thursday that he turned them over to Keller. Keller submitted a report of his findings earlier this year, but it is under review by the Texas Historical Commission. The report has not been finalized, Bejarano said. Ã¢â‚¬Å“That is part of what has got to be clarified Ã¢â‚¬â€ how to take care of the remains that were found,Ã¢â‚¬Â Bejarano said. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=64937_0_10_0_M

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.”

Kahlil Gibran

From Broken Wings , 1910