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From: "Sam Cline" <>
Subject: Fw: Brainer/Braner Cemetery, Sullivan Co.
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 23:07:20 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Adams <>
To: Sam Cline <>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Brainer/Braner Cemetery, Sullivan Co.


Sam,

Thank you very much for the information. I will check with the Indiana
State Archives.

Sincerely,
Donna K. Adams
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Cline <>
To: Donna K. Adams <>
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 10:19 PM
Subject: Brainer/Braner Cemetery, Sullivan Co.


>Donna,
>
>Concerning information about the burials in this cemetery.
>
>Do you have access to the cemetery survey for Sullivan County that MAY have
been
>done by the WPA in the 1940's?
>
>If you don't have, you might want to check with the Indiana State Archives
in
>Indianapolis.
>
>We were able to get a copy for Morgan County, the county I now live in.
The WPA
>drew a plat of each cemetery along with any landmarks such as county roads,
etc.
>They also marked on the plats the graves of veterans of any war that might
have
>been buried in the cemetery. A number of the cemeteries that are included
for
>Morgan County no longer exist today. Fortunately we were able to locate
people
>who remembered the cemeteries being in the location that the WPA was
indicating.
>
>http://www.state.in.us/icpr/
>
>The above link is for the Indiana Commission on Public Records. There is a
link
>to the Indiana State Archives web page available from this page. You will
also
>find an e-mail link on the Indiana State Archives page.
>
>Their telephone number is: (317) 232-3660. I would suggest that you ask
for
>Alan January, if you call.
>
>I hope this information will be helpful.
>
>The Terre Haute and Evansville papers have covered the story of the
>Brainer/Braner Cemetery. I hope that the information I have forwarded to
Amy
>Johnson at DNR in Indianapolis will generate some positive results.
Although my
>guess is that DNR is already aware of what is going on.
>
>Sam Cline
>HoosierWeb
>http://www.hoosierweb.org/
>Morgan County History And Genealogy Association
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmchaga/mchagai.html
>Morgan County Indiana Historian - IHB/IHS
>http://www.indianahistory.org/cohist.htm
>Indiana Genealogical Society
>http://www.indgensoc.org/
>Indiana Historical Bureau
>http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/ihb.html
>Indiana Historical Society
>http://www.indianahistory.org/
>The candle light will always be gleaming through the sycamores.
>The latch string is always out.
>
>

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