Note from Delaware County Pioneer Preservation Committee of the Delaware
County Historical Society,
The committee worked at Bethel Cemetery in Harrison Township in Delaware
County on April 22, 2006. We had Boys Scouts, farmers and Gaston's American
Legion along with our group. Someone tried counting them and came up with 28
individuals in total! The cemetery dates back to 1865. It has an a lot of
"leaners."
Another workday will be May 13 at the Bethel Cemetery. The church across the
street served up free lunch as well. They were grateful and so were we. Bob
Good from our group did the networking and made much of the arrangements to
make the day such an success. Warning the bees are out already. I got stung
today before ever getting to the worksite. My Sting-Eze came in real handy.
Mark Kreps mjkreps(a)gmail.com
Muncie, IN
On 4/22/06, KidClerk(a)aol.com <KidClerk(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 4/22/2006 1:02:13 P.M. Central Standard Time,
Armytruck(a)webtv.net writes:
I wonder what everyone is up to on this years
work projects ?
Lee:
Riverside Cemetery at Brook continues to have stones repaired, cleaned,
and
leveled thanks to Helen Wildermuth and Mark Davis. Also just this week
Mark
and Helen reinstalled the grave stone for a 2 year old boy who died
in 1846
and whose grave is in the middle of a cow pasture. Thanks to my township
trustee, the area of the grave was fenced off so that the cattle do
not cause it
any harm. Then the repaired stone was reset. This is one of the oldest
graves in our county, and is 14 years older than our county itself.
Just today I received permission to reinstall two grave stones on private
property a few hundred yards from the stone mentioned above on another
piece of
property. Those date to 1858 and 1864 and are a husband and wife. The
previous owner had removed them for safe keeping in the 1970's and
they remained
in his tool shed until his death last year . Unfortunately, his
daughters
did not want them put back up, so they gave them to me so they could be
repaired with hopes of putting them back on the graves after the property
sold or at
least installing them in Riverside Cemetery with a plaque mentioning
where
the graves actually were. I was pleasantly surprised when the new owners
told
me today they would welcome them back on the property and would take care
of
them!
Considering the Brook community is celebrating its sesquicentennial this
year, these will make for great projects to have completed for such
an occasion.
Kyle D. Conrad
Brook, IN
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