Becky Miller and I did a cemetery restoration demo at Greenlawn Cemetery at Mexico, Indiana for the Miami County Genealogy Society Wednesday evening. We had about 20 people and they were awesome. We showed them the techniques and they jumped in and got busy working. I think all together they dug up at least 5 fallen and sunken markers and reset at least 1 or 2. The cemetery is still active, however, the original part of the cemetery was started by the Church of the Brethren. The cemetery board is going to be making new bases for at least 3 tombstones that were dug up. We cleaned poultice off of 2 stones that I did ahead of time and applied poultice to at least 3 others. And 2 of the stones were drilled, pegged and epoxied. One of those had its base leveled before it could be repaired. We started at 6 p.m. and left the cemetery for our carry-in dinner about 8:15. It is amazing what can be done by willing volunteers in barely over 2 hours. It was great to have so much enthusiastic help and the dinner was delicious, too. Sharon and Don Linn provided a nice air conditioned pole building with cold soft drinks for the dinner that followed. Also, Sharon Linn, MCGS member keeps the records for the cemetery which is still active. Some of the older burials have records, such as "baby," "old man," "occupied." Some of the stones we worked on were not listed in the record book, so the records are being updated and made more complete. Debby Debby Beheler - dbeheler@indy.net @>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>-@>- Coordinator of: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co. INGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/county.html - Cass Co. INGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrpmc/ - Miami & Cass County Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project