It took several years, I used to live there and still get the local Albion weekly paper. She went to the commissioner's many times trying to work out access. The cemetery is in the wooded area of a large field, there was no access when crops were planted, and it was on private property. I think there was a time period when the farmer wouldn't allow access, he may have just become upset with a few people, I'm not sure. The area of the cemetery was given to the township I believe, with the condition that the county pay for the surveys necessary, which they did. There is an access lane now so you can drive to the woods where the cemetery is. Hopefully I'm remembering this correctly! Mark and Helen can add what I forgot. Rhonda Stoffer Head of Indiana History and Genealogy Services Marion Public Library -----Original Message----- From: tielking [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Mrs. O'Bannon visits cemetery Wow! What a great article. I am particularly interested in how Martha Barnhart "spearheaded a project that has restored legal public access to the site". Mark or Helen do you know? Angela Tielking ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Silver" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Mrs. O'Bannon visits cemetery > This could be a springboard for your lobbying campaign for the next > legislative session. Perhaps Mrs. O'Bannon could be persuaded to serve as > an honorary spokesperson for INPCRP volunteers. > > You might also wish to consider getting permission to video tape this > episode, make copies and send them to all the legislators.... > > Sue Silver > CA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rhonda Stoffer" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:21 AM > Subject: [INPCRP] Mrs. O'Bannon visits cemetery > > > > > <http://kpcnews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=72737&SectionID=15&SubSectio > > nID=&S=1> > > Former first lady Mrs. O'Bannon spent time last Thursday at the > > Stewart-Greisinger Cemetery in Noble County which was restored last year > by > > Mark and Helen during a cemetery workshop. A good article in the local > > paper about her visit and the plight of old cemeteries. Don't know when > this > > show will air, but might be a good tie in to the positive publicity that's > > been talked about. > > > > > > > > Rhonda Stoffer > > Head of Indiana History and Genealogy Services > > Marion Public Library > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > INPCRP State Coordinator: Brad Manzenberger < [email protected] > > ==== 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