Usually in Miscellaneous, or in this case maybe the Cemetery section. Karen Zach wrote: > I used to put 'em in Tidbits but not sure where Jef'll put 'em = he'll get > 'em up somewhere :) THANKS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kim & Roger Hancock" <hancock@link2000.net> > To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:26 AM > Subject: [InMontgo] The Old Town Cemetery > > > >> Is there a catagory for general postings of the City council or Cemetery >> >> >> >>> Crawfordsville Weekly, July 27, 1894 >>> >>> >> THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY >> >> Two Hundred and Twenty-Two Bodies Exhumed - The City Building to Be >> Papered >> and plastered- Other Matters. >> >> The council met Monday evening at a late hour with Measrs, Thomas and >> Robinson absent, both being out of the city. >> Mr. Myers made remarks favoring the opening of Oak street, he and the >> engineer having made a survey of it. >> The Board of Public Improvements was granted further time to consider >> the proposed addition of Mr. Ireland and also on the request of W. M. >> Darter >> for the vacating of eight feet on Grant avenue in front of his residence. >> J. H. Cook, as the superintendent of the work of exhumation of the >> bodies in the vacated portion of the old town cemetery, reported that 222 >> bodies had been exhumed. Of these 208 had been reinterred in the old town >> cemetery and 16 removed to other cemeteries. The expence of removal was >> in >> the neighborhood of $375. Of the bodies exhumed 174 were those of unknown >> persons. >> The question of placing two arc lights in front of the Cathlolic >> church >> for Rev. J. R. dinnen's jubilee came up, but was not disposed of, no one >> making a motion to put the thing through. >> Mr. McCampbell very properly roasted the miserable crossing now >> running >> across Main street from Myers & Charni's store and on motion a brick >> crossing was ordered put in. >> It was moved and carried to repair the city building with paper, >> paint, >> etc., and it was decided to receive bids for the same at the next meeting. >> A large photograph of the floral tributes at the funeral of the late >> W. >> Vanarsdall was presented to the council by the family of the deceased and >> received a vote of thanks. >> Gen. Lew Wallace was present and stated to the council that he had a >> petition to present to them signed by nearly all the business men in town >> and about 200 young men. At his suggestion it was voted to have a called >> meeting on Thursday evening to consider the petition which relates to the >> purchase of uniforms for Company B. >> The resolutions calling out the city commisioners to consider the >> opening and extentions of Oak street from College to Haw was unanimously >> passed. >> The question of the purchase of the lot just north of the city >> building >> came up but nothing was done, the council holding a secret after meeting >> to >> consider the question. >> The council adjourned without further business. >> >> http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ >> >> List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~~~ "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." Samuel Adams "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Adams