I have posted a few pictures I took at the Lindley Cemetery, Greentown,
Indiana on Saturday September 22nd at PHOTOLINK
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http://www.renno.org/misc/LindleyCemetery/index.htm> (requires Flash
Player). If anybody wants have any of the pictures to print, please contact
me and I will email the images to you in much higher resolution.
I first visited this cemetery in April 2003 while researching my wife's
family and found many ELLIOTT stones in the oldest section amongst the
LINDLEY markers. From this clue I was able to extend what I knew of her
family by a couple hundred years. James & Susannah (STOUT) LINDLEY's graves
are some of the earliest (and they possibly started the cemetery on their
land) and are my children's sixth-great-grandparents though their daughter
Mary's marriage to Aaron ELLIOTT. Many of the Lindley and Elliott stones
were on the ground and I photographed them where they lay after brushing off
as much lichen as my arms would allow and the stones would tolerate. Photos
from 2003 here.
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m> The panoramic shot shows quite a few of the downed stones. The cemetery
took damage not due to age about a year ago when it was vandalized.
Today the cemetery looks great due to the efforts of many volunteers several
of which are on this recently proclaimed "conversation list". Good thing
for me that this list exists as I probably would not have know about the
ceremony or the efforts of Joan Wray, David Cox, Linda Grove and the many
others that assisted in the cleanup and restoration, many thanks to them
all. Just before the ceremony Joan & David were working on the Hugh Willits
tablet that was broken into (I believe) thirteen pieces. I remembered this
stone being on the ground from my visit in 2003, now next to the tablet,
Hugh has a new Military marker to honor is service to our country-he died in
service of disease at Nashville Feb 17 1865.
Others CW soldiers getting new markers were:
Jehu Gallion PVT CO E. 13 IND INF Died Jan 2 1862 (Discharged for disability
12/19/1861)
Jordan C Miller PVT CO C 12 IND INF Died Nov 7 1881 (Mustered Out on
6/8/1865 at Washington, DC)
John A Lindley PVT CO A 137 IND INF Died Jul 6 1885 (Mustered Out on
9/21/1864 at Indianapolis, IN)
William R Lindley PVT CO E 11 IND CAV Died May 3 1864 (died at Kokomo, IN)
The ceremony included recognition of several Lindley descendants, a color
guard from the American Legion Post 317, Greentown; Sons of Veterans
Reserve, Kokomo; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Kokomo and the
35th Indiana Vol. Infantry "1st Irish" Civil War Re-enactors.
Proud to be a part of this 'conversation' group that does so much, even if I
don't converse upon it much or do a whole lot.
Brad Renno,
Fort Wayne, IN