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)