The VFW and American Legion may help with new stones of vets and military
markers.
Marie
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From: "Cheri Thompson" <maplegrove(a)hotmail.com>
To: <invigo(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [INVIGO] Bethesda Cemetery Transcription
Mary Ann, thanks for the info. I'm going to forward your email
to a
person
who works at the Vigo Co Lib. and is a member of the Vigo Co Historical
Soc.
I'm hoping he'll know who to get in touch with about this.
The Bethesda Cem has no real record keepers or "people in charge". There
are a couple of volunteer grounds keepers, who have been taking care of it
for years. They do the best they can, and were a lot of help to me, but I
don't believe they would know who to contact, or how to handle the
information you sent. I believe the Historical Soc. is the best bet.
Thanks again
Cheri Thompson
----Original Message Follows----
From: "lankford" <lankford(a)tampabay.rr.com>
Reply-To: invigo(a)rootsweb.com
To: <gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com>, <invigo(a)rootsweb.com>
Subject: Re: [INVIGO] Bethesda Cemetery Transcription
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 20:59:51 -0400
I just read this article about a cemetery restoration and it is awesome.
The
government supplies new headstones for those are unreadable, missing or
broken.
The project identified not 200 Civil War veterans - as had originally been
expected - but 2,998. Many gravestones were missing, damaged or
obliterated;
some, like the Joachims' marble, had sunk beneath the grass. And so the
volunteers filled out more than 1,200 applications for new markers, since
the (Department of Veterans Affairs) supplies them if originals are
unreadable or lost.
I have family members who were is the civil war and I know from visiting
there several years ago that their are some that are almost worn away with
age. I thought you might know who to pass this information on to, that
might
do something about those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us.
Thank you so much for the work you put in to identifying the graves at
Bethesda. I have one to add but I will send it separately.
Mary Ann
in Florida
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