Note from Delaware County Pioneer Preservation Committee of the Delaware County Historical Society, The committee worked at Bethel Cemetery in Harrison Township in Delaware County on April 22, 2006. We had Boys Scouts, farmers and Gaston's American Legion along with our group. Someone tried counting them and came up with 28 individuals in total! The cemetery dates back to 1865. It has an a lot of "leaners." Another workday will be May 13 at the Bethel Cemetery. The church across the street served up free lunch as well. They were grateful and so were we. Bob Good from our group did the networking and made much of the arrangements to make the day such an success. Warning the bees are out already. I got stung today before ever getting to the worksite. My Sting-Eze came in real handy. Mark Kreps mjkreps@gmail.com Muncie, IN On 4/22/06, KidClerk@aol.com <KidClerk@aol.com> wrote: > > > In a message dated 4/22/2006 1:02:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, > Armytruck@webtv.net writes: > > I wonder what everyone is up to on this years > work projects ? > > > > Lee: > > Riverside Cemetery at Brook continues to have stones repaired, cleaned, > and > leveled thanks to Helen Wildermuth and Mark Davis. Also just this week > Mark > and Helen reinstalled the grave stone for a 2 year old boy who died > in 1846 > and whose grave is in the middle of a cow pasture. Thanks to my township > trustee, the area of the grave was fenced off so that the cattle do > not cause it > any harm. Then the repaired stone was reset. This is one of the oldest > graves in our county, and is 14 years older than our county itself. > > Just today I received permission to reinstall two grave stones on private > property a few hundred yards from the stone mentioned above on another > piece of > property. Those date to 1858 and 1864 and are a husband and wife. The > previous owner had removed them for safe keeping in the 1970's and > they remained > in his tool shed until his death last year . Unfortunately, his > daughters > did not want them put back up, so they gave them to me so they could be > repaired with hopes of putting them back on the graves after the property > sold or at > least installing them in Riverside Cemetery with a plaque mentioning > where > the graves actually were. I was pleasantly surprised when the new owners > told > me today they would welcome them back on the property and would take care > of > them! > > Considering the Brook community is celebrating its sesquicentennial this > year, these will make for great projects to have completed for such > an occasion. > > > Kyle D. Conrad > Brook, IN > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > >