We used to have monthly roll calls, asking everyone to update us on their plans and achievments? We haven't done that in ages. What do you say we post messages to the group letting everyone know about your Indiana cemetery work, whether it's finding them, cleaning them, restoring them, etc., either what you've accomplished in the last six months or your goals for the coming six months. Lois

In Dearborn we plan to get our new Cemetery Commission formally organized, and we think we'll be starting by finding out which of our cemeteries are currently receiving care, and who is doing it (township, church, volunteers, etc.) That way we'll have an idea of what needs to be done. Members of our informal cemetery preservation committee are wandering the back roads with their GPS devices recording cemeteries for DNR and several of us will be at the October 6 workshop with lots of questions. Chris McHenry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: [INPCRP] What are your plans for FALL? > We used to have monthly roll calls, asking everyone to update us on their > plans and achievments? We haven't done that in ages. > > What do you say we post messages to the group letting everyone know about > your Indiana cemetery work, whether it's finding them, cleaning them, > restoring them, etc., either what you've accomplished in the last six months > or your goals for the coming six months. > > Lois > > > > ==== 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 > > >

I know you asked for Indiana updates, but I thought I would toss out my info anyway. I am from way up north, Berrien County, MI. The Berrien County Genealogical Society will be hosting its first County wide Cemetery Preservation workshop in March. We have around 100 cemeteries throughout the county, a lot of them are old ones, left standing on private land. We are still doing our research; lots of reading, locating the cemeteries and lots of prep work, we hope that by focusing on the whole county we will be able to get enough volunteers to make this dream come true. Our intent is to contact all the county, townships, churches, private organizations, youth groups, schools, historical organizations and civic groups. the list is growing by the minute. I know not to expect a great deal at the beginning, but we are focusing on at least a 5 year intro period. Cindy L (Skiles) Frie "SkiFri" ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris McHenry <cmchenry@seidata.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] What are your plans for FALL? > In Dearborn we plan to get our new Cemetery Commission formally organized, > and we think we'll be starting by finding out which of our cemeteries are > currently receiving care, and who is doing it (township, church, volunteers, > etc.) That way we'll have an idea of what needs to be done. Members of our > informal cemetery preservation committee are wandering the back roads with > their GPS devices recording cemeteries for DNR and several of us will be at > the October 6 workshop with lots of questions. Chris McHenry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:29 PM > Subject: [INPCRP] What are your plans for FALL? > > > > We used to have monthly roll calls, asking everyone to update us on their > > plans and achievments? We haven't done that in ages. > > > > What do you say we post messages to the group letting everyone know about > > your Indiana cemetery work, whether it's finding them, cleaning them, > > restoring them, etc., either what you've accomplished in the last six > months > > or your goals for the coming six months. > > > > Lois > > > > > > > > ==== 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 > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. >

As for the Gard Cemetery in Hancock Co., Gary Hall, the boy scout who is working on his Eagle project there, has done an excellent job. He installed a split-rail fence along the front of the cemetery, a park bench, and a nice monument that identifies the cemetery, when it was established, and the last names of the families that are known buried there. He has planted mums at the entrance of the cemetery and beside the monument. Now that is left is headstone cleaning and repair, and putting fence around the perimeter of the cemetery. Walt has worked several weekends this spring repairing stones after the cemetery was cleared of small trees and brush. It is now starting to look like a cemetery! Seeing the work that Walt and Gary have done to this long forgotten and neglected cemetery has lifted my spirits. I can't thank them enough for their hard work and dedication to this restoration project. Sincerely, Angela Tielking Knightstown, Henry Co., Ind. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: [INPCRP] What are your plans for FALL? > We used to have monthly roll calls, asking everyone to update us on their > plans and achievments? We haven't done that in ages. > > What do you say we post messages to the group letting everyone know about > your Indiana cemetery work, whether it's finding them, cleaning them, > restoring them, etc., either what you've accomplished in the last six months > or your goals for the coming six months. > > Lois > > > > ==== 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