Ok. Ok, she didn't actually steal it. (I guess she always wears a stocking
over her face.)
Anyway, here's Mark's site. Enjoy and learn.
http://www.geocities.com/md9105/StoneSaverCemeteryRestoration.html
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From: "The Richardson's" <richardson69(a)comcast.net>
To: <INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [INDELAWA-L] oops! Clarification on the Stolen Smith Stone
Hello List!
I am so glad to see others on the list again, I thought I was going to
have
to goad Shirley into an argument just to get some action on this
list!
I have included information on the Smith tombstone and some links on
restoration.
MaryLu, you may check out the website below and see if you can find one
for
Minnesota, to find someone to build the base up on the stone that you
found.
Mark Davis is our local restoration Hero. But I don't know if you could
get
him to come to Minnesota <G>
That question would have to be directed to him.
I think he has a website but I couldn't find a link to attach, it is
called
Stone Savers I believe.
Clarification on the Smith tombstone:
Mark Kreps actually found the marker in someone's front yard.
I got an email he sent out about it, and like always I went off like a
firecracker, and decided to load up my kids in the car and take photos of
the marker in the yard then call the police and newspaper.
I was scared the people would hide the stone or destroy it, if they knew
we
were aware of it.
But when you read the article you will find out that the people who had it
did not take it, but found it in their house.
Technically I did not steal it back, the police let me take it <G>
But when I went by Shirley's house to show her the marker me and Andy
teased
her and said we had stolen it back <G>.
I LOVE to tease Shirley!! It is SO much fun <G>
For all of you interested in restoration I will include some links to
stories and a website. I am just learning how to do this, and am eager to
learn and do as much as I can. And I don't consider it "work" because I
actually enjoy doing it. And I take my sons along with me, so the next
generation will know how to do restoration, and have a respect for
cemeteries that most young people do not have. Besides they are home
schooled and I am trying to add many different subjects into their
curriculum, and local history, cemetery restoration is some of them.
I hope you enjoy the links,
Gina
Article on Mark Davis.
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/1/007910-9121-007.html
Article on John S. Smith stone, btw the boy in the photo is my son Andy.
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/5/008152-5165-004.html
INPCRP (Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp/
There has been quite a bit of work on the Smith stone also.
I will copy and paste what Mark Kreps sent to another list on the work
done
so far.
The Hinton cemetery is not in as bad of condition as some that I have
seen,
and that is quite amazing considering it sits way off the main road
surrounded by woods. It don't appear to be vandalized like Granville
cemetery, in Niles Township.
The following is from Mark Kreps.
Pioneer Cemetery Committee & Interested Citizens
With the help of my son Jeremy and his friend Alex Reed the John S.
Smith gravemarker was installed in the slotted base at the Hinton Cemetery
on Sunday, Nov. 2! The slot mixture will be drying the next 24 hours and
I will revisit the gravesite to remove the 2 X 6 supports and do final
clean
up probably on voting day. I did take some pictures with my camera
of the
boys performing some work.
Gina, Chris and Andy Richardson as well as myself visited Hinton
Cemetery, Sat. Nov 1 during the afternoon. Not the easiest place to find
but
a beauty nevertheless. Using the Hinton Cemetery reading completed in
1974
we were able to pick up on the style( straight and then zigzag back to the
row behind that had only few in it) in which it was read and find the
appropriate base for John S. Smith! It fits perfectly. There are two
rather
dead trees next to the John S. Smith base. Trees in cemeteries do a
lot
of
unexpected and unwanted damage to markers. Hinton Cem. is no
exception.
There are a couple of markers that are buried by themselves not next to a
family, as is the case for John S. Smith. All his family is buried
elsewhere. His wife remarried which was the custom. He therefore is the
only
Smith there. It was also a good idea for the original engraver to
include
John's middle initial on the gravemarker.
Andy and I cleaned the Smith marker while Gina and Chris cleaned out
the
slotted base. It was decided that the John Smith marker should be
cleaned
and detailed better at my home. I then could return the gravemarker
perhaps
as soon as Sun. Nov. 2. and place it in it's slotted base.
Meanwhile we
noticed that the James Benadum marker was completely broken across the
upper
third. The top of the marker was toppled over on the ground. I had
some
unused epoxy that needed to be used this year. So with Andy's help the
James
Benadum and Nancy Linacum markers got repaired. The
John Linacum marker was split and broken from side to side as well. Gina
took some pictures which will be sent later. Incidentally, James Benadum
died in the "service of his country" a soldier of the Civil War, belonging
to Co. D, 84th Regiment, dying Sept. 28, 1862. It was an honor to fix a
veterans grave so near Veterans Day.
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From: "unicorn1945" <unicorn1945(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: <INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: [INDELAWA-L] oops!
> Oops! Me too. Hit the reply and so sorry. Well, we need to wake up on
this list anyway so someone think of something genealogically wonderful to
say or pass along. Perhaps Gina would like to share some of what's been
going on with the cemetery restorations here in Delaware County - like
finding and re-stealing the John Smith's headstone?
> Shirley
>
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