I have a wood tri-pod with winch to move the stones plus the straps also if they want to
borrow it but I do not know how to contact them.? We had it custom made like Helen's
and it worked great when we had our pioneer cemetery vandalized.
Regards,
Linda Grove
Liberty Township
Greentown, IN? (east of Kokomo)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Alloway <ralloway(a)earthlink.net>
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 6:26 am
Subject: [INPCRP] SHILOH CEMETERY VANDALIZED
In the Indystar newspaper:
Rampage hits rural cemetery
Associated Press . August 20, 2008
Some 30 to 40 gravestones were destroyed at the Shiloh Cemetery, said
Decatur County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Henderson. Some dated from as early as
the 1850s.
Henderson said he suspects a group of people entered the cemetery one night
last week and vandalized the markers. Cemetery officials estimated it would
take three or four people to topple some of the stones.
"I don't understand it," Henderson told the Greensburg Daily News. "I
don't
know what joy somebody could get out of defacing somebody's grave."
Caretakers and trustees discovered the damage, estimated at $30,000 to
$40,000, Sunday.
Bill Fenley, one of the cemetery trustees, said it would be difficult to
place the stones and pieces of markers back in their proper locations in the
old cemetery.
"Somebody's 20 minutes of fun is going to lead to months of work. Some may
never get put back together," Henderson said. "It's like a giant
jigsaw."
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS02/808200408
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