Hi again everyone!
Here's an interesting problem that only Vee Housman would have loved to tackle.
I just discovered a couple of days ago via a weblink to the St. Joseph Co., IN website
under Mishawaka City Cemetery a photo of one of my distant relative's gravestones.
Here's the link to Jonathan Berkheiser's stone. He's my 2C4R relative.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~instjose/cemeteries/mishawaka/berkheiser_jonatha...
I think this is one of those stones the American Legion or the Veterans Administration
puts up for war vets.
Looks like a nice stone, but its what's inscribed on it that gave me acid reflux and
running to find the bottle of pink liquid.
To make a long story short, when this new stone was made, somebody inscribed on it the
wrong Civil War unit. The unit on the stone is not correct because that's the unit my
ggg grandfather, John Berkheiser, served in. I have the pension file and papers to verify
this fact. My ggg grandfather isn't buried in St. Joseph Co. He's buried in
Weasaw Cemetery in Miami Co., IN. Jonathan and John were born in the same area of
Schuylkill Co., PA. Jonathan was born in 1836 and my John in 1821.
To verify the photo placed on the website, we drove out to the cemetery this morning and
the photo you see is a legitimate picture. However comma it was placed next to the
original gravestone of 1912 vintage.
Here's the question I'd like to throw out for discussion tonight. I'm copying
this message to my INSTJOSE List and a copy of this will go into my next BERKHEISER NOTES
newsletter. Do I dare question this error with the people in charge of the cemetery or
should I just "let sleeping dogs lie"? What's interesting is I know the
descendants of Jonathan Berkheiser.
Also is there any course of action I can take to maybe resolving this issue? I'd also
love to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience.
Thanks!
Rick B