Ruth, Perhaps you could "offer" to help locate it. THIS could be a project for an Eagle Scout project. Archaeologists walk grids on properties like this and space themselves like 25 feet apart or so and they all just walk the property. You'd be amazed what you can find.... Sue Silver ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pride1jw@aol.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Helphinstine Cemetery - Alfordsville > Because it is a family we have known for years, she was very nice and seemed > interested in other history of the area I shared with her..since this is her > father in law's land, I mentioned that "maybe her husband was aware"!!!! " > if not I felt they would want to know ,,just in case they did come upon some > signs of tombstone,etc.."..and reminded her another neighbor had plowed out a > stone in the middle of a field many years back..........the elderly lady who > told me, is 96 and living in a nursing home and was not aware of EXACT > location.......ruth pride > > > ==== 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 > >