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From: "Linda Menikos" <>
Subject: Re: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Cemetery Cleanup
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 04:36:10 -0500
References: <002001bfabd6$3f98e900$9c5115d0@edge.net>

Wow!

What a wonderful thing to do. You are all to be commended. You work on
weekends, I guess. Did you get a book of instructions before you started,
or learn from this list how to do the repairs, etc, or did you already know
how to do it? I am restoring a family cemetery, and I appreciate all that
goes into what you and your students are doing. This should be in the
newspapers to inspire other groups.

Accept my congratulations!

Linda

----- Original Message -----
From: Tommy Allen <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Cemetery Cleanup


> Some may be interested that my 8th grade class cleaned and restored the
old abandoned Shofner Cemetery in Bedford County, Tennessee. Much damage had
been done by a recent ice storm and falling limbs. The students are now
writing their book on the burials in the old cemetery.
> The students repaired this cemetery ten years ago but because of the ice
storm revisited the cemetery.
> The students do such chores as remove brush and debris, rake leaves,
set fallen stones upright, repair broken stones, fenced one cemetery,
photograph every tombstone and generate a book from research of the stones.
> My students have been doing this project for the last ten years. The
following is a list of the TENNESSEE cemeteries they have cleaned and
written books about
> 1. Shofner Cemetery, Bedford County
> 2. Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Lincoln County
> 3. Pioneer Cemetery Moore, County
> 4. Cash/Robison Cemetery, Coffee County
> 5. Holman Cemetery, Lincoln County
> 6. Couch/Patton Cemetery, Bedford County
> 7. Keller Cemetery, Bedford County
> 8. Betsy Willis Cemetery, Coffee County
> 9. Citizens Cemetery, Coffee County Tennessee
> 10. Carden Cemetery, Coffee County The school is
> EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL
> Country Club Drive
> Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388
>
>
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