The Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project has a website at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp with information on cemeteries throughout
the state. It invites submissions on cemeteries in need of attention, and
over 100 submissions are given on the website. These include a recent
discovery in Shelby County, and one submission so far on Decatur County:
John Kendall <JHKEsq(a)aol.com> reports:
Kendall Family Cemetery is in Decatur Co., Indiana in Section 28.
It's on a farm owned by Jerry Kitchen, who took me to see it. There is
only one grave, that of my great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth
Kendall. I don't believe that the county owns it, but I think that the
deed specifies it did not transfer with the farm, however. It's all
overgrown, and surrounded by cornfields, and the one stone is broken.
Mr. Kitchen has not encroached upon the cemetery, and will take
anyone back to see it who wants to.
The site is documented, at least in one source compiled in the 1950s
on file at the Indiana State Library. I live in Connecticut; otherwise I
would take care of it.
John Kendall <JHKEsq(a)aol.com>
January 25, 1999
Others on this list may wish to record their experience with the IPCRP.
John Ballard, Decatur Co IN genweb co-ordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~indecatu/indecatu.html