Bill would legalize burial in town plot

Wed., June 18, 2008

Associated Press The Spokesman-Review

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House on Tuesday passed legislation that would allow the few remaining residents of the ghost town of Elkhorn, Mont., to be buried there.

The community’s cemetery, on roughly 10 acres, is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, and federal law prohibits human burials on public land. That hasn’t stopped residents from burying loved ones there, but the town’s few residents have been pushing to do so legally for more than a decade.

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