Harold,
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is a Congressionally authorized
successor organization to the Grand Army of the Republic, our nation's first
Veteran's organization. Other than stating you have an ancestor who was a
Union soldier, I don't' know that they really get into the "lineage"
aspect
much.
There is also the Sons of Confederate Veterans of the Civil War and
Daughters of Confederate Veterans as well.
All veterans' graves should be protected - at all costs. That's what they
did for us....
Sue Silver
El Dorado County, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Clupper <halclup(a)chesco.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] New member
Hello Folks,
My name is Harold Clupper and I live in Chester County, PA but was born in
Wabash County, IN. I have a family interest in the Old Quaker/Owen
Cemetery in
Wabash County IN, Lagro Twp. I have verbal permission from the Twp.
Trustee to
do some maintenance on the cemetery the next time I visit Indiana.
She
told me
that she would execute the permission slip [which I copied from
INPCRP],
but I
haven't gotten it yet.
Here in PA, I'm looking at an abandoned cemetery just down the road from
where
I
live. There are no stones on the privately owned property, but the
WPA
records
indicate that 15 to 20 civil war veterans are buried there.
Fragments of
a
single monument were found nearby and when assembled matched a name
on the
WPA
records. The local chapter of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the
Civil
War
[a lineage society] is also very interested in this cemetery. I
understand
this is part of an ongoing national effort to identify the burial
places
of all
civil war veterans.
The mail that I have received on this list has been very helpful - thank
you
all.
Harold Clupper halclup(a)chesco.com (Chester Co., PA)
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THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
"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."
--Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA