On my way home to Nathrop from Copper Mt., it was such a beautiful day. In the mid 60's in Leadville and hardly a cloud in the sky and the color of the Aspens was awesome. I decided to stop off at the cemetery, there is never an end to that cemetery... and stumbled in and out of sunken graves and got down and dug to unearth some stones. I have sat here this afternoon and evening blowing up and pulling back trying to figure out names on these stones. I found some stones that aren't listed in the cemetery records that the library has and I found some stones that the cemetery records say there isn't a marker. Lingren from Sweden, one stone the man was from Norway, another the Dr. was from Germany so I went and looked and that area that he was from is now in SW Poland. I found some missing Civil War Vets and some Woodman stones. The Civil War Vets stones are deteriorating very fast and hope that we can get them replaced. It is a shame that what looks like the stones sinking, which I am sure some of them are, but I also think the forest floor is covering the stones. Wish we could have a huge fund raiser and get in there and repair all the broken stones and fill in all the sunken graves.. knee deep to higher.. take the stones and cover them so we can get a name off them and then replace the stone. Those stones have huge pores that chalk would stay in the groves and breaks in the stone and I am afraid would make matters worse. I used chalk on a CW Vet's marker in AZ, sure the rain will wash it away... bet me... two years and every time I went there I still saw the damage that I did to that stone and I apologized to the vet and finally got the VA to get him a new stone. I wanted today to chalk up a lot of stones but was afraid to do it. The info is still on the stones if there was a way to bring it up. Then out of the clear blue is a little wooden maker with the name etched in the wood just as visible as could be and I think it was a still born child born in 1904 and the wood was very legible. I will try and get back up there this week if the weather holds and spend some time with pen and paper, which I did not have today to make notes and a spray bottle with water in it. Should call a day in Leadville to meet and hit that forgotten area and see how much we can get transcribed and photographed. Any ideas... I am open for suggestions... -- Tschüß, Gail Have some fun, join "Trails to the Past" at http://trailstothepast.org

Gail, I wish there was some way to restore the cemetery. I would love to help but I don't live in Colorado.   As you have seen, chalking can do damage to a stone and it isn't recommended. Here is an article about using the foil method or playing with light (with a mirror) to bring out inscriptions:   http://www.ncgenweb.us/newhanover/cem1.html   Thanks for caring about this cemetery!   Kisha Be a Hero for Hallie!: http://tinyurl.com/GreatStrides2010 Help Find Rachel Cooke: http://www.rachelcookesearch.org         --- On Sat, 9/18/10, Gail Kilgore <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> wrote: From: Gail Kilgore <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> Subject: [COLAKE] Leadville Cemetery To: COLAKE@rootsweb.com, trails-to-the-past@googlegroups.com, co-cemeteries@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 9:56 PM On my way home to Nathrop from Copper Mt., it was such a beautiful day.  In the mid 60's in Leadville and hardly a cloud in the sky and the color of the Aspens was awesome.  I decided to stop off at the cemetery, there is never an end to that cemetery... and stumbled in and out of sunken graves and got down and dug to unearth some stones.  I have sat here this afternoon and evening blowing up and pulling back trying to figure out names on these stones.  I found some stones that aren't listed in the cemetery records that the library has and I found some stones that the cemetery records say there isn't a marker. Lingren from Sweden, one stone the man was from Norway, another the Dr. was from Germany so I went and looked and that area that he was from is now in SW Poland.  I found some missing Civil War Vets and some Woodman stones. The Civil War Vets stones are deteriorating very fast and hope that we can get them replaced. It is a shame that what looks like the stones sinking, which I am sure some of them are, but I also think the forest floor is covering the stones.  Wish we could have a huge fund raiser and get in there and repair all the broken stones and fill in all the sunken graves.. knee deep to higher..  take the stones and cover them so we can get a name off them and then replace the stone.  Those stones have huge pores that chalk would stay in the groves and breaks in the stone and I am afraid would make matters worse.  I used chalk on a CW Vet's marker in AZ, sure the rain will wash it away... bet me... two years and every time I went there I still saw the damage that I did to that stone and I apologized to the vet and finally got the VA to get him a new stone.  I wanted today to chalk up a lot of stones but was afraid to do it.   The info is still on the stones if there was a way to bring it up. Then out of the clear blue is a little wooden maker with the name etched in the wood just as visible as could be and I think it was a still born child born in 1904 and the wood was very legible. I will try and get back up there this week if the weather holds and spend some time with pen and paper, which I did not have today to make notes and a spray bottle with water in it. Should call a day in Leadville to meet and hit that forgotten area and see how much we can get transcribed and photographed. Any ideas... I am open for suggestions... -- Tschüß, Gail Have some fun, join "Trails to the Past" at http://trailstothepast.org Check out our new Genealogy Project!! http://trailstothepast.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Another possibility might be to use different colored gel material and shine a flashlight through them. Police use this method to bring out things hard to see in ambient light. I have not tried this but it makes sense and might be worth a try. ~~C Sullivan --- On Sun, 9/19/10, camracrazy <camracrazy@yahoo.com> wrote: From: camracrazy <camracrazy@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [COLAKE] Leadville Cemetery To: colake@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 7:18 AM Gail, I wish there was some way to restore the cemetery. I would love to help but I don't live in Colorado.   As you have seen, chalking can do damage to a stone and it isn't recommended. Here is an article about using the foil method or playing with light (with a mirror) to bring out inscriptions:   http://www.ncgenweb.us/newhanover/cem1.html   Thanks for caring about this cemetery!   Kisha Be a Hero for Hallie!: http://tinyurl.com/GreatStrides2010 Help Find Rachel Cooke: http://www.rachelcookesearch.org         --- On Sat, 9/18/10, Gail Kilgore <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> wrote: From: Gail Kilgore <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> Subject: [COLAKE] Leadville Cemetery To: COLAKE@rootsweb.com, trails-to-the-past@googlegroups.com, co-cemeteries@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 9:56 PM On my way home to Nathrop from Copper Mt., it was such a beautiful day.  In the mid 60's in Leadville and hardly a cloud in the sky and the color of the Aspens was awesome.  I decided to stop off at the cemetery, there is never an end to that cemetery... and stumbled in and out of sunken graves and got down and dug to unearth some stones.  I have sat here this afternoon and evening blowing up and pulling back trying to figure out names on these stones.  I found some stones that aren't listed in the cemetery records that the library has and I found some stones that the cemetery records say there isn't a marker. Lingren from Sweden, one stone the man was from Norway, another the Dr. was from Germany so I went and looked and that area that he was from is now in SW Poland.  I found some missing Civil War Vets and some Woodman stones. The Civil War Vets stones are deteriorating very fast and hope that we can get them replaced. It is a shame that what looks like the stones sinking, which I am sure some of them are, but I also think the forest floor is covering the stones.  Wish we could have a huge fund raiser and get in there and repair all the broken stones and fill in all the sunken graves.. knee deep to higher..  take the stones and cover them so we can get a name off them and then replace the stone.  Those stones have huge pores that chalk would stay in the groves and breaks in the stone and I am afraid would make matters worse.  I used chalk on a CW Vet's marker in AZ, sure the rain will wash it away... bet me... two years and every time I went there I still saw the damage that I did to that stone and I apologized to the vet and finally got the VA to get him a new stone.  I wanted today to chalk up a lot of stones but was afraid to do it.   The info is still on the stones if there was a way to bring it up. Then out of the clear blue is a little wooden maker with the name etched in the wood just as visible as could be and I think it was a still born child born in 1904 and the wood was very legible. I will try and get back up there this week if the weather holds and spend some time with pen and paper, which I did not have today to make notes and a spray bottle with water in it. Should call a day in Leadville to meet and hit that forgotten area and see how much we can get transcribed and photographed. Any ideas... I am open for suggestions... -- Tschüß, Gail Have some fun, join "Trails to the Past" at http://trailstothepast.org Check out our new Genealogy Project!! http://trailstothepast.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message       Check out our new Genealogy Project!! http://trailstothepast.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message