Don,
We discussed this at length a few weeks ago. The dates are still too
arbitrary, most favor no date at all. What we never did find out is where
the 1850 date came from. Shortly after 1850 several cemeteries were deeded
to counties, we suspect there may have been an 1850 law to allow this, and
IC 23-14-67-1 was to take in those that pre-dated that law.
Ernie
At 03:27 PM 03/31/2003 -0800, you wrote:
3) Should the establishment date of 1850, in IC 23-14-67 Section 1,
be
changed to a different date?
Group,
The Society of Indiana Pioneers allows membership based on the following
chart. This has been established as a pioneer guideline for some time.
(about 1915 or so). This might be a starting place?
Thanks Don Huffman
Quoted: An Indiana Pioneer is one who lived within the present boundary of
an Indiana county on or before December 31 of the year listed in the table.
Adams 1840 Lawrence 1825
Allen 1840 Madison 1830
Bartholomew 1830 Marion 1830
Benton 1840 Marshall 1840
Blackford 1840 Martin 1825
Boone 1835 Miami 1835
Brown 1835 Monroe 1830
Carroll 1835 Montgomery 1830
Cass 1835 Morgan 1830
Clark 1825 Newton 1855
Clay 1830 Noble 1840
Clinton 1835 Ohio 1825
Crawford 1825 Orange 1825
Daviess 1825 Owen 1830
Dearborn 1825 Parke 1830
Decatur 1830 Perry 1825
Dekalb 1840 Pike 1825
Delaware 1830 Porter 1840
Dubois 1825 Posey 1825
Elkhart 1840 Pulaski 1840
Fayette 1825 Putnam 1830
Floyd 1825 Randolph 1830
Fountain 1830 Ripley 1825
Franklin 1825 Rush 1830
Fulton 1840 Scott 1825
Gibson 1825 Shelby 1830
Grant 1840 Spencer 1825
Greene 1830 Starke 1850
Hamilton 1835 Steuben 1840
Hancock 1830 St. Joseph 1840
Harrison 1825 Sullivan 1825
Hendricks 1830 Switzerland 1825
Henry 1830 Tippecanoe 1830
Howard 1845 Tipton 1845
Huntington 1840 Union 1825
Jackson 1825 Vanderburgh 1825
Jasper 1840 Vermillion 1830
Jay 1840 Vigo 1825
Jefferson 1825 Wabash 1840
Jennings 1825 Warren 1830
Johnson 1830 Warrick 1825
Knox 1825 Washington 1825
Kosciusko 1840 Wayne 1825
Lagrange 1840 Wells 1840
Lake 1845 White 1840
Laporte 1840 Whitley 1840
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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
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