Those of you with internet access may be interested in the discovery of a
cemetery in Shelbyville, Indiana when contractors building a new backwash
lagoon for the Indiana-American Water Co. Inc. near the company's well field
and water plant unearthed human bone fragments Saturday and later discovered
up to 24 graves, many with brick-lined "vaults". It seems the location of
the cemetery was unknown because, over several decades, the stones had
vanished and the property was cultivated.
Paraphrasing the article: Records indicate people were buried in the Tucker
Cemetery from at least the 1840s through the 1880s, said Marge Roberts of
Morristown, who is involved in the cemetery inventory. By the 1930s, 20 to
25 gravestones were there, said Rosalyn Keppel of Indianapolis. But by the
1970s, only a few were left. At least one, she knows, was removed as a
prank. The others have "vanished."
The site is on property previously owned by the MAXWELL family in
Shelbyville but no one of that family is buried there, it having been the
TURNER family cemetery.
The full story is available at:
http://www.shelbynews.com/insideNewsstand.asp?ID=3783
Lois
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Help us to distribute the Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project's
PETITION TO THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE calling for revision of current
state laws regarding protection and maintenance of pioneer cemeteries:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp/Petition.PDF
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