This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------91A9E9365BBA64EDDA981876 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi PS Roots, I'm forwarding this message from an Ohio list because I think this woman might be related to Gail Fuson, and because members of this list have a lot of resources about cemeteries and I hope that you will share them with Debbie. Diane Hettrick dhettrick@earthlink.net --------------91A9E9365BBA64EDDA981876 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by sparrow.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10046; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29782; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:36:58 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:36:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19990215004847.21648.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [208.131.243.242] From: "Debbie Moore" <caverdjmoore@hotmail.com> Old-To: CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Hewling Cemetery Restoration? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:48:46 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Resent-Message-ID: <"DxGIcB.A.MPH.mw2x2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1082 X-Loop: CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-L-request@rootsweb.com Dear List Members, I have a rather unusual request: how does one go about restoring a small cemetery? This past summer I located the cemetery where my Revolutionary War ancestor, William Fuson was buried. I found the info in Virginia-Ohio Fusons by Sylvia Fuson Ferguson, written in the 1930s. In part, the book says "7 miles from West Liberty and one quarter mile from Wesley Chapel [Champaign County]. The DAR expect to properly mark his grave but had not located it definately in September 1935 when we visited this spot. Most of the graves in this cemetery were marked with nameless flagstones and the cemetery, deserted for years, was sadly neglected ..." Given the date, 1935, I did not even expect to be able to locate the cemetery, but my boyfriend and I found it after work one evening near Memorial Day, and it had even been mown. It is however, in very bad shape with less than half a dozen standing stones. I would like to get permission to prod the soil to see if we can locate and then reset any found stones. It is a small wooded area and depressions are still noticable where burials took place. Do I need permission? Do I start knocking on neighbors' doors to see who owns the property? Do I hang around it for the upcoming week prior to Memorial Day to see who mows it? (The litter on the ground would suggest a bushhog was used, although I don't know how since entrance is up a very steep embankment). I have many teenagers and am also a Venture Crew leader (a new branch of Scouting), so it could conceivably become a community project instead of "family" project. Any help in how to begin would be gratefully received, and information found would be gladly shared. *Thanks* Debbie in Hardin County OH ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------------91A9E9365BBA64EDDA981876--