Great! Glad to hear it. We're 50/50 with 90 counties to go.
Jon
From: "helen" <stonehugger(a)insightbb.com>
Reply-To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Any advice?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:04:57 -0500
The American Legion and the VFW have been very active in Morgan County
helping us clear cemeteries, and they help fund other cemetery projects.
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: "jon andrews" <sianoil(a)hotmail.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Any advice?
> HA! HA! "Dead veterans don't pay dues, so consequently we are not
concerned
> about them!"
> At least that was the statement made by the head of "one" of these local
> organizations when asked to back up our local cemetery commission last
year.
> Shows you where their heart really is. If they're not playing bingo or
> drinking they not concerned with them.
>
> Jon Andrews
>
> P.S. I'm not bashing these organizations. Just stating their comments,
but
> when is the last time you saw the American Legion or VFW concerned about
> anything in a cemetery except putting up flags for Memorial Day?
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Pat & Bill Harris" <wpharris(a)netnitco.net>
> >Reply-To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
> >To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
> >Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Any advice?
> >Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:47:19 -0500
> >
> >How about getting a veteran's organization such as the
> >American Legion or VFW to back you up?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Indiana History" <mplih(a)marion.lib.in.us>
> >To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:46 PM
> >Subject: [INPCRP] Any advice?
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have need of some advice. A frequent patron of the Indiana Room
here
> >came in and said she had found a tombstone. She had been telling a
friend
> >of
> >hers for several years that the stone step by his garage was a
tombstone.
> >The stone was there when he bought the house 17 years ago. They turned
it
> >over last week, and it is a military tombstone for a CW soldier. After
a
> >couple of days research, we found it belongs in the IOOF cemetery here
in
> >Marion. Now called the Historic Estates of Serenity, the IOOF is a very
> >old,
> >very large cemetery, still in use today. I called the cemetery sexton,
told
> >him about the stone and asked if we could put it back with the
soldier's
> >grave, it is marked with a granite stone so it isn't an unmarked grave.
The
> >sexton said they would have to install it for insurance reasons, and
then
> >said what he would do was lay it face up on the ground in concrete. I,
of
> >course, said "NO YOU WON'T". He was somewhat taken aback that I
would
> >disapprove of this, and I !
> > > said the stone would deteriorate, and it would not be able to be
removed
> >from the concrete. He said he would install it up right, if there was
room
> >where it wouldn't be in the mower path. I told him we would clean the
> >stone,
> >and he advised me to use bleach. I again said "NO YOU DON'T". He
said
he
> >had
> >had good luck with bleach, also scouring powder and a biodegradable
> >cleaning
> >solution used with a power washer. He several times mentioned that he
hates
> >marble. He also told me he had repaired several old stones with 5
minute
> >epoxy and a professional product called Akem. He refuses to install the
> >stone we have in the ground unless it is put into a concrete base that
> >encases the stone. He says that tamping the ground and putting the
military
> >stones in the dirt doesn't work, and the stones will lean. Mark Davis
and
I
> >went to the cemetery and looked at the military replacement stones he
had
> >installed in the concrete, and also where the stone we have needs to
go.
> >We
> >seem to have 3 !
> > > options that we can think of:
> > >
> > > 1. Not put the stone back, and the person who's property has the
stone
> >considers the stone "his property" and doesn't want the stone put
back
in
> >an
> >unsafe manner that might cause damage to it in the future. We could
> >possibly
> >store the stone in the library's museum collection.
> > >
> > > 2. Go in a night and install the stone the right way, and see how
long
> >it
> >takes them to notice its there.
> > >
> > > 3. Find a descendant and see if they can persuade the sexton to
install
> >the stone correctly. I have traced the soldier's grand son to 1994 when
he
> >died, still working on finding more relatatives.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Since the IOOF is a private
cemetery,
> >is
> >there a way to make them use the proper techniques to install and
repair
> >stones. I appreciate any help any one can give.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rhonda Stoffer
> > > Head of Indiana History and Genealogy Services
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> > > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living?
> >
> >
> >
> >==== INPCRP Mailing List ====
> >If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living?
> >
>
>
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