I plan to follow this up with regard to a cemetery dating from the end of the civil war,
involving mostly deaths by disease, which has been largely ignored. I will let you know
how things go.
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From: lankford <lankford(a)tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: May 28, 2007 8:59 PM
To: gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com, invigo(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INVIGO] Bethesda Cemetery Transcription
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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