My sentiments exactly... Sue Silver ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Smead <bsmead@gte.net> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Workday and training needed! > Jack, let the scouts do all the paperwork. I e-mailed the Allen County, > Indiana scoutmaster asking for help with the Hatfield Cemetery in Washington > township, just north of Fort Wayne. The first burial there was in 1836 and > I believe it is still active, last burial being in 1988, however there was a > great part of it completely overgrown with quite a few broken and overturned > headstones. It took six months before I heard anything back, then one day > last summer I got a call from the scouts letting me know that they were > ready to start. There were over 50 people there on that first day, including > two cub scout packs, one boy scout troop and one Varsity scout troop. They > are now about to the fence line, this is only a one acre cemetery, have made > a new sign, are looking for a fence company to donate fencing, and want to > build a shelter with the history of the cemetery. There is one veteran of > the war of 1812, my(GGGG grandfather) there along with 15 civil war > veterans. I have never been a scout and have no sons so I've never been > involved with them before but let me tell you, what a GREAT bunch of people. > They have made Hatfield cemetery a simi-annual project. > Brian E. Smead > Terre Haute, Indiana > > > Sue, > > Our county is so small we only have a Part time Scoutmaster. No, > > seriously there is paper work, permission, from parents, property owners, > > Etc, Etc. I don't have time for all of that. I am going to try to get the > > SIGS (Southern Indiana Gen. Soc.) to handle that. I'll see what happens. > When > > I am finished with all of the locating, finding deeds to determine the > sizes > > of the cemeteries, and the owners of the property, there will be in excess > of > > 500 sheets of information to fill out. I think I have that part covered, > all > > I have to do is figure out all of the Information and the Southern Indiana > > Genealogical Society will take that and Put it on paper. Also I have 5 > > township Trustees that have no idea where all of their cemeteries are. I > have > > to solve that problem also. > > The Scouts are a great idea, but I don't have time to > complete > > everything else and work with them. I can't spread me that thin. I am > going > > to the local Newspaper, and if I can intrest them in doing a story about > my > > needeing volunteers on weekends to help clear, I might get a Response. But > if > > you could see this country, you would understand their reluctance to come > > forward. Also that would mean besides still only being semi-retired from > the > > Masonry Bussiness, working on my cemetery information, and taking on > weekends > > on clearing, I don't know what to do, or when to do it. I know I > definately > > need help. That I have to work on right away > > Sorry for venting my frustration, I didn't start out to do that. I > never > > do, it just happens. > > Jack E. Briles Sr. > > Floyd Co. PCRP Cooridinator > > PO Box 444 > > New Albany, In. 47151-0444 > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families > are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is > undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, > historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved > in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - > not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family > memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of > yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery > exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > >