I have been busy updating all the cemetery pages and adding obituaries. It
takes hours to collect and prepare the obits for the webpages. I am not
complaining, but want you to know that it is a slow process, but I am
working on it constantly.
Tuesday, Ed and I spent 4 hours looking for cemeteries in Cass County, IN.
I volunteered to help the Indiana Genealogical Society in describing
locations and directions to Cass County Cemeteries. In four hours, we only
covered 2 townships, but we did make some discoveries. Adams and Bethlehem
townships are mostly country with a few tiny towns. We followed directions
to many cemeteries and ended up knocking on doors to talk to long-time
residents about the locations of some very old pioneer cemeteries. How
disappointing that several on the list are no longer visible as cemeteries.
Bethlehem Presbyterian is one. We spoke with an 87-year old gentleman who
had attended the church all his life and lived in the area. He remembers as
a small boy, there were stones in the churchyard where the church still
currently stands, but knows nothing of the locations indicated on the IGS
papers. Others appear to be "lost" also.
A 80-year young gentleman helped us with locating Grabic/Grable. It is in a
small woods in Adams Twp. We did not go back there as we would have had to
walk through the crops to get there, but hope to go back later in the year
when the crops are in. Mr. M. said in the 50+ years he has been there he
was only aware of about a dozen people going back to that cemetery. He has
a great view from his home of the fields and that little woods.
Let me know if you would like to photograph cemeteries in Miami, Cass or
Howard Counties, to be added to the webpages. I prefer green backgrounds as
opposed to brown or snowy white. This is one way we can at least preserve
the images and information for the future. Help is needed to make this
possible.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/cemlist.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/cemlist.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inhowar2/
Debby
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Debby Beheler, debralee(a)insightbb.com
State Coordinator for INGenWeb -
http://www.ingenweb.org
a part of the USGenWeb Project -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/county.html - Cass Co INGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co INGenWeb