Kudos to you and to the County Commissioner!
Our regards from war-torn California pioneer cemeteries...
We have pending legislation set for Assembly subcommittee hearing this
coming Tuesday. The legislation will create the California Historic
Cemetery Commission, as a formal body. Four of us from the California
Historic Cemetery Alliance will be speaking about the problems in our
counties and statewide. I believe it has a more than decent chance of
being enacted.
Wish us luck!
Best regards to all who are helping our nation's pioneer cemeteires...
Sue Silver, President
El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission
(a non-profit public benefit corporation)
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:33:34 EST Winbolt2(a)aol.com writes:
Hi Group,
This is to let you know what has been done on the clean up of our
Peckinpaugh
Cemetery that is located below Cape Sandy, in Crawford Co. Indiana. I
had
contacted Dennis Pekinpaugh who is the manager of Muzler Rock Crushing
Quarry, that ownes the land around the cemetery. We talked on the
phone and
he really doesn't know much about the family, but he was so kind as to
take a
couple of his workers to the site and did a great job of cleaning out
trees
that had grown inside the fence as well as cut the tall weeds around
the
inside as well as outside. It was in such bad shape when I visited
there in
Sept. of 1999. He has sent me pictures to show the work that was done.
I was
so happy to see this much taken care of.
I had written to the Crawford Co. Trustee and let him know that I knew
it was
his responsibility to take care of these pioneer cemeteries, I sent
pictures
of what it looked like in 1999. I also sent letters and pictures to
the Co.
Commissioner's. Well I received a very nice letter back from one of
the
Commissioner's David Sillings :
" Thank you for your letter and the pictures of the Peckinpaugh
Cemetery. You
may be assured that I will get someone to work on this site and see if
we can
get it cleaned up and maintained in a more professional manor. I am
sorry
that it was in such a shape as it was when you were there in Sept.
1999. I
will try to keep you informed of the progress. Thanks again for you
letter."
Sincerely
David L. Sillings Crawford C. Commissioner
I have gotten a group of Peckinpaugh's descendants together and we
will all
meet in Crawford Co. on May 20th & 21st. and visit the site, and do
any work
that needs to be done. There will be at least 12 of us, and all from
different states... I live in Oregon, and there will be some from
Indiana,
Ohio, Tenn., and maybe other states as well. Most of these have never
seen
the cemetery, so I am looking forward to showing them where our
ancestor's
are resting.
Take care,
Bev. Winbolt
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