In a message dated 7/24/2003 3:43:17 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,
cliadakis(a)worldnet.att.net writes:
It would be wonderful to find an inexpensive way to preserve them
Here's another question that someone might be able to help me with.
A few weeks ago, I was looking around some old cemeteries. (Four
closed ones. One in Ohio, three in east-central Indiana.) I was very
lucky in the I was able to find quite a few of the headstones I was
looking for. One of the *main* ones I wanted to find, I didn't. This
particular cemetery (Philadelphia Cemetery, Perry Twsp, Delaware
Co, IN) was well-maintained, but it was obvious that the majority of
the stones had been broken/taken/crumbled away long ago. When
looking around at the edges, my father, the intrepid adventurer that
he is, pushed his way into the brush and found some headstones
that were knocked over, but too big (and the area too wild) for him
to be able to read what was on them, if it even was still readable.
What kind of permissions would you need to get to do some
restoration work on these old, closed cemeteries? In this case
in particular, it would take a lot of brush clearing to even get to
the stones that have fallen. After that, who knows what could or
couldn't be done about the stones themselves. Would this be
a question for the township trustees since, as I understand it,
they are the ones responsible for the maintenance of the old
cemeteries.
Tracey