In a message dated 1/18/03 7:42:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, nbdm(a)juno.com
writes:
Hi Jack, I am now officially the Township Trustee and want to update
you
on cemetery plans. I hope that Nathan Hack has by now contacted you about
restoring the small cemetery on Yenowine Lane. He should be presenting it
to his Troop next month and the Council from there. Maybe we can work on
it a couple of weeks in late Spring. I went to look at the Swartz
Cemetery, Irongate and Old Salem Church a couple of weeks ago. All need a
lot of work. Maybe you can give me ideas what we can do first with a
little manpower. I will compose a letter concerning my permission to
allow you on Township Cemeteries and will mail it if you send me your
address. Write back with any ideas on these projects or any concerns.
Thanks Dave
To the List;
I feel like a burden has been lifted from my shoulders since I
received the Above E-mail. From the New Georgetown Township Trustee in Floyd
County. This is the most promising thing I have heard since I started trying
to save our Pioneer cemeteries. I hope others of you have this kind of turn
around in your counties. My New Years Resolution was to push a little harder
for some type of cemetery recognition, and get some action. I now believe it
will be a much better year than I could ever have hoped for. I also have been
asked to speak to the Southern Indiana Genealogical Society at it's Feb. 6th
meeting. Maybe things really are going to change for the better this year.
The County Residents are beginning to take notice of the cemetery
conditions. And thanks to the New Trustee, David Riley, I feel much better
already. Davids brother is the Trustee for the adjoining Twp. of Franklin,
and I also have received Excellent cooperation from Tom Cannon, the New
Albany Twp. Trustee. Things are looking up. I guess persistence does pay off,
especially when people take their job seriously and try their best to follow
the law. We wont finish in a year, but I believe we will make the Proverbial
"Dent" in the mess we now have to contend with.
jackbriles(a)aol.com
PO Box 444
New Albany, In. 47151-0444
(812) 282-6585