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From: "G Tielking" <>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 01:00:37 -0600
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Way to go, Jim! Keep up the good work!
Angela


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wilcox" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries


> I too become discouraged at times, Just today I visited Elder Cemetery
> North of Rockville, That I had spent several days last fall cleaning. ,
> just to find someone else had visited and broke 3 stones and knocked over
4
> more. Having founded a Cemetery Commision for this county and putting
> together the membership, I'll be darned if I'll quit, I may not make a
> great deal of difference but I do have some effect, I have worked to hard
> to give up.
> I think it would be a great loss if anyone on this list quit. It is here
> that I became interested in what we do. Maybe a petetion is in order to
let
> our bureaucrats know what is at stake.
> In my lifetime I've lost a great deal of faith in our due process and
> public servants but I refuse to just go away without a fight.
> I work a regular job 50-60 hours a week and this project takes what little
> spare time I have.
> I don't do it for glory, I do it because it's the right thing to do.
> I have noticed that our local elected officials here are ignorant about
the
> historical significance of our pioneer cemeteries but with a little
> education were receptive to our cause.
>
> Jim Wilcox
> Parke County
>
>
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