Begin forwarded message: > From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> > Date: Sun Jan 13, 2002 01:17:18 AM US/Eastern > To: <adams1@hoosierlink.net>, <barn3369@infi.net>, "galloway" > <galloway@kconline.com> > Subject: Re: Joseph Galloway/Revolutionary War Soldier's Grave site in > Noble Co., IN > > Dear Tisha: > > You've got a pretty serious situation going on here and I wish I had an > easy > answer for you. Sounds like you've already done a LOT of the ground > work, > collecting deed records, etc. > > My first suggestion is that you join the INPCRP e-mail discussion group > by > sending a one-word message consisting of: > SUBSCRIBE > to: INPCRP-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > > After you get your welcome message from Rootsweb, post your message > below to > the group to see if there are others on the list from the Noble Co. > area (I > believe there are one or two, if not more). Maybe by working together > you > can get something happening there. > > Do you have PICTURES of the site? > > Lois > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "galloway" <galloway@kconline.com> > To: <LoisMauk@usa.net>; <ssattert@citznet.com>; <barn3369@infi.net>; > <adams1@hoosierlink.net> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 12:47 AM > Subject: Joseph Galloway/Revolutionary War Soldier's Grave site > > >> >> >> To INPCRP; Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project >> >> >> May I please inform you of a situation that may find you and your > group >> some interest and a worthy cause. I wish to inform you of the >> controversy >> over the graves of those burried in the Stewart-Greisinger cemetery in >> Washington township in Noble county Indiana. I am especially >> interested in >> one particular grave and that is that of Joseph Galloway >> Sr./Revolutionary >> War Soldier. I am of decent to him, and would like to enlist as many as >> possible to help with this cause. There has been a request of a new >> access >> road be installed presented to the county commisioners in Noble county >> Indiana for preservation purposes. Thus far the proposed road has not >> been >> approved. Without such access to this cemetery it will be lost forever. >> I would like to inform you that this cemetery is in very grave >> danger >> of being lost. And that would be a down right shame. I have been >> working >> along side of Martha Barnhart of the Daughters of the American >> Revolution > to >> try to preserve this cemetery which is in a sad, neglected, forgotten > state. >> Not only have I obtained the plot maps, the airial views and survey >> maps > and >> the deed to the cemetery...I have also recently been back to the >> cemetery > to >> view the neglect first hand. I was appalled and sadened. The statements > made >> recently by the Washington township trustee aslo sickened me. Mr. >> Miller >> says he believes in the old way of thinking and that be "if it ain't >> broke > , >> don't fix it", Well I don't know how much more broke this cemetery >> could >> get. It needs serious care and restoration to survive. The airial >> views of >> the cemetery are also sickening..the farmer who owns the surrounding > fields >> is farming escentially half of the cemetery,, and I am sure over >> graves. > The >> cemetery is plotted to be an acre in size..and it is mearly half that >> now. >> The fence is down and non-exsistant on the north and west sides and >> those >> are the sides that are being farmed and crowded by Longville Farms. >> There > is >> also supposed to be 30 marked graves and 5 unmarked graves. Upon my >> visit > on >> 1-11-02 I could count about a dozen graves. Please, if you and your >> group >> would like to voice and volunteer your support, I assure you it is a > worthy >> cause. The commisioners are stumbling their feet on the issue of a >> road, > and >> the farmer who owns the land is uncooperative thus far. If you would > please >> contact myself or Martha Barnhart we would love to discuss this issue. >> My >> home# is 219-268-2337 ...Mrs. Barnharts # is 219-693-3369 This >> cemetery is > a >> asset to the County as well as the State of Indiana as a historical >> place. >> There is a Revolutionary soldier burried there! The Washington township >> trustee has neglected this cemetery for years, as well as the >> commisioners >> of the county, and I am sure you are aware, it is their responsability >> to >> maintain and repair it. It is located in a corner of a field with no > access >> to it. Therefore it has been forgotten and neglected for years upon >> years. > >> What myself and Martha Barnhart of The Daughters of the American > Revolution >> would like to do is preserve and restore this piece of history to it's >> rightfull glory. Without access to do so, this will indeed be >> impossible. >> You may also contact the Washington Township Trustee Allen Miller @ >> 219-834-2502 for explaination as to why he hasn't taken care of the >> cemetery. County Commisioner Hal Stump may also be contacted concerning > the >> issue's at NOBLE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS >> >> Mark Pankop >> 11223E - 900N >> Kendallville, IN 46755 >> 260/347-3798 >> >> J.Hal Stump >> 8084 W. Gilbert Lake Road >> Kimmell, IN 46760 >> 260/856-2663 >> >> Richard Winebrenner >> 709 S. York St. >> Albion, IN 46701 >> 260/636-7240 >> >> James Mowery, County Attonrey >> 104 E. Main St. >> Albion, IN 46760 >> 260/636-2141 >> >> >> Thank You >> >> Sincerely >> Tisha A. Galloway >> >> >> >> > >