Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project. Part of this project
involves
>petitioning the Indiana General Assembly. I have seen the state of some of
these cemeteries make me very sad, but it disturbs me to think that someday
someone might be permitted to turn it into a corn field or plunk a parking
lot on it.
>
>If any one is at all concerned, please click on the URL below, print out
>and sign the petition. I thought this project was relevant to us all as
Hoosier
>genealogist and might interest some of you. An edited portion of the email
>I received is below. Please note that to date there have been no signatures
>from Wells County or Blackford Co. Perhaps thats partially my fault for not
informing you about the project earlier.
>
>"The Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project (INPCRP) petitions
>urging the Indiana General Assembly to act decisively to protect our
>vanishing pioneer cemeteries are still streaming in. I want to thank all
>of you who have taken the time to print out the Petition from the INPCRP
>website at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp.
>>
>>Thought you might be interested in a current tally of the number of
>>signatures received so far. The total as of Tuesday evening, Jan. 5,
>1999, is 426, including 36 out-of-state signatures. The rest are from
>Indiana residents.
>>
>>The deadline for collecting and mailing in petition signatures has
>been extended due to the inclement weather this week in Indianapolis,
>which has delayed the start of the 1999 Legislative Session.
>
>We received word today that we should hear from our legislative
>contact next week concerning an date and time for us to meet them to
>discuss our concerns. I'll keep you posted as that situation develops.
>>
>>Thanks for caring about protecting Indiana's abandoned and neglected
>pioneer cemeteries."
>>
>
>Connie Brubaker
Member of IPRCP
Member Blackford-Wells Genealogy Society
>
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