Ellen, Here is the page for Bash Cemetery from the Westmoreland County GenWeb Archives Tombstone Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/westmoreland/tsimages/bash.htm As you can see, the trees and briars are back in full force. Ellis Michaels Co-Coordinator, PAGenWeb Tombstone Photo Project ellisrn@earthlink.net If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. (Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac) > [Original Message] > From: Ellen <ellen@b-n-s.com> > To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 7/2/2006 10:52:40 PM > Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] Somers or Bash Cemetery > > Back on July 22, 1976 there was an article in the Tribune-Review about > the cleaning up of the Somers Cemetery, but I also have a reference to it as > Bash Cemetery. A rough job of trying to clean it up by Bill McFarland of > Greensburg and LeRoy "Whitey" Schaller of Bolivar, both group leaders in the > Youth Conservation Corps, a federally and state funded summer employment > program for high school students & 16 members of the corps (eight from the > Forbes State Forest Office in Ligonier, eight from Lynn Run Park cleared the > cemetery of the trees, brushes, and briars in two days' time. It just > looked like forest when they started to do it. > > > > What I'm wondering is What Condition Is It In Now 30 Years Later. The > cleanup was do to an elderly woman's letter to the editor being published. > She stated that men who had fought on battlefields were buried there. I > just happened on a copy of the article & I think we have a copy of this > cemeteries records at our historical society. If so, I am going to place > the article & pictures of it in a vinyl & place it with the records. Let me > know if any of you know more about the cemetery condition now. > > Thank You, Ellen Ballas (ETHS - VP) > > > > > > Visit my web site at: > > > > http://www.familytreetracer.com <http://www.familytreetracer.com/> > > > > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > >