Thank you Lena.
There are soooooo many bad tombstone readings from
the past.
The digital photos really help show all the
information on the
stone, if it's visible.
If you let Thelma know about any mistakes, she
will correct
any bad listings. I just found one on Rebecca
Lucas Brelsford.
The readings errors are really common everywhere.
A photos inventory
also help find all those stone that were not
recorded. I find these
in every cemetery I work through. It helps to
take all the footstones
too, this will identify the missing tombstones.
You folks on this list should add your old photos
too. At least people
researching can find where their ancestors were
buried. And
that usually helps them find the way to more
documents and family.
Find A Grave is a great place to leave -your link-
to others looking
for your ancestors. I've made several connections
by posting
my own family members on this site. Find-A-Grave
only requires
your email and a password to post burials or
photos and they
have never emailed me with junk. It's a great
site.
All the cemeteries are listed on Find-A-Grave for
Tippecanoe County.
Most of the large ones are not complete, but the
smaller ones are.
One lady is coming along nicely on the largest one
Springvale. [17,000]
She is using original records, I think she is up
to 'H' now.
There are a few cemeteries listed several times
from folks that didn't
spell the name the same way or some who knew the
cemetery by other
names. This is an obvious thing when you view
this link on Tippecanoe County.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=870
Some folks didn't do the search first, they just
created a new name.
We have 134 known cemeteries in our county. I
think there are 170 listed
on FAG. So you can see some didn't look before
they leaped. :-)
I have tried to collect the best of these links on
my page, listing them by township.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intcpcrg/TippecanoeCountyIN_Cemetery_List.html
Adina cemetery page on the Genweb has them A to Z
order.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/tcem.html
Also for anyone interested in looking at the new
database from Area Plan, it is now
online. This is a PDF file that takes Adobe
Reader to open. This link goes directly
to the file. This is a listing of all the 134
cemeteries in Tippecanoe Co.
Pretty cool!
http://www.tippecanoe.in.gov/egov/docs/1126713330_814361.pdf
The fact is, these old cemeteries are still
disappearing even with new laws to
protect them. Big business will pay to have them
moved or the fines after
they are destroyed or bulldozed.
Go photograph please!
L.A.
----- Original Message -----
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:03:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lena C." <gostraka(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Salem Cemetery
Back in 2001 I went through Salem Cemetery and
took
photos of every gravestone I could find. This
afternoon I went through and uploaded all of
those
photos to Find A Grave. There are some stones in
the
cemetery that I couldn't read and there are
other
stones that are missing. I uploaded about 300
stones,
which accounted for 300-325 people buried in the
cemetery.
So for those interested the link is:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=7461978&CRi...
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