DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio -- A Delaware County cemetery is for sale after its previous owners were sentenced to jail time.
Ted and Arminda Martin will go to prison for stealing from their customers and now, some of their victims want to buy Fairview Memorial Park.
Those involved say they want the cemetery in good hands.
"Everything's changed from the way it originally was," Tim Foor said.
Tim Foor has spent a lot of time here checking on the cemetery and helping maintain it since the owners went to jail.
He doesn't own Fairview Memorial Park, but he'd like to.
"We're gonna have to get, to try and get someone in charge of the cemetery who's actually going to take care of it you know," Foor said.
Foor and others are working on a plan to potentially buy the cemetery.
"Years of neglect and abuse. I think it could be undone," Foor said.
Foor says many people who have family buried in the cemetery are worried the property could get into the wrong hands again, so Foor and a small group started a fundraiser hoping enough people would donate to the cause.
"To see it all going like this and no one taking care of it, it's just kind of disgraceful," Foor said.
Foor said the money raised could be used to purchase the cemetery or go to the 70 some victims who bought plots, headstones, markers, and vaults and never got them.
"That's what I would like to see, is these people honored you know and just taken care of," Foor said.
Foor isn't sure what will happen to Fairview Memorial, but he doesn't want to see it close either.
"I have a cousin, she's 70, 80 years old now and her husband's buried up front here. If that happens, if they close the cemetery, she won't get to be buried with her husband," Foor said.
Foor says he has 20 or so family members buried here too and the cemetery is part of the county.
"When you look around this place, this is Delaware. If you're enjoying internet, the roads, whatever you're enjoying these guys built it," Foor said.
He hopes the right person will end up taking care of it.
Foor says the court-appointed receiver of the cemetery is asking to sell it for several hundred thousand dollars.
A judge sentenced Ted Martin to five years in prison, Arminda Martin to four and a half years in prison, and ordered them to pay more than $183,000 to their victims.