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    1. [NESALINE] [mrudebusch@juno.com: Saline Co. Cemeteries]
    2. FRED W DETHLEFSEN
    3. Can anyone answer this persons question? Thanks; Fred ================= Begin forwarded message ================= From: mrudebusch@juno.com (Merle A Rudebusch) To: fritz@aztec.asu.edu Subject: Saline Co. Cemeteries Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:32:12 -0600 Fred: I have some questions about the Summit cemetery, and Brush Creek, are they one in the same, or are there two different cemeteries? To explain, I am building a database of Civil War Veterans for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, which includes all veterans buried in Nebraska. We hope this database will be on the Nebraska SUV Website, as well as being merged with the National SUV database which will be on the National Website at http://suvcw.org I have been taking some GPS readings in some of the cemeteries and find your readings are close, but I am working with tenths of a second, as we are taking headstone readings, and the USGS readings are rounded off. I have some variation on the Andrews cemetery, as it seems your reading is the St. Josephs reading and they are a mile apart. If you want, I could give you the readings I have, but I have not really covered the county yet. We will have our members walking all the cemeteries taking a survey of all the headstones of the CW veterans to see what kind they have an the condition. We were able to get a headstone for a Veteran in Friend this November that did not have one. We are also looking at driving directions vs Range and Township readings since most people will not have plot maps, unless they take time to look them up before going out, and we add that information to the record of each veteran. I think the Summit cemetery is close to Wilber, but did not locate it until I looked at your information and compared it to the Delorm Atlas which has the GPS grids. Merle Rudebusch, Commander Department of Nebraska SUVCW

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