L.A.
Very good. I like your linkage to the spread sheet. I will have to learn
how to get the digital pictures attached.
Joan Wray
Tipton County
----- Original Message -----
From: "L.A. CLUGH" <clugh_la(a)msn.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Memorial of discarded tombstones
Linda,
Don't know what happened to my first post. It went to the
request email somehow.
Anyway, here is one example of how you can create a plat
map. Send it to the County Genweb person if that is possible.
Or the public library may have burials online. Be sure to share
it when your finished so someone can find it in the future.
We used the Excel spreadsheet and a digital camera for
photos all the stones. Blue lines are linked to these photos.
This was our first project. It was sure an interesting one.
Almost all these markers had been moved to 6 back rows.
Half are missing now. Luckily they were recorded earlier. So we
included the missing stone here too.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intcpcrg/Harrisonville/HarrisonvilleCemetery_Inscri
ptions.html
Best of luck,
L.A. Clugh
----- Original Message -----
From: LindaKen2048(a)aol.com
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Memorial of discarded tombstones
I have a question and I am hoping someone on this list can advise
me.
The township has a cemetery (Lindley Cemetery, Howard County,
Liberty
Twp.) that has approximately 50 discarded and piled tombstones. I
spoke
at my
DAR meeting last week and asked for help to restore this pioneer
cemetery,
that I would like to make a memorial area for the stones (I read
about
this in a
book). I now have a Eagle Scout wanting to do this as his project
regarding
the stones and a memorial. What would be my first step in doing
this?
How do
you pick an area for the memorial? I also would like to erect a
flag
pole,
etc. and Cemetery Heritage sign. This is a full, closed, 4 acre
cemetery-water
on two of the three boundaries side. Could I put the memorial over
an
unmarked area in the middle? (I know this sounds horrible, etc.) I am
new to
this
and in the learning process but willing to learn from people who
know
considerably more than myself.
I thank you in advance for your help and suggestions, your
kindness is
appreciated.
Regards,
Linda
Linda Grove
Liberty Township Trustee/Assessor
Howard County, Indiana
Office: 765.628.2402
Linda Gill Grove
Surname Researching:
IN: Gill, Stout, Manor, and Mann
NYC: Joyce, McAleer, Callaghan and McGregor
"Their Story Is Our Story"
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"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
undisguised. This is a cemetery.
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
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