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From: "Brian Smead" <>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Workday and training needed!
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:14:09 -0500
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Jack, let the scouts do all the paperwork. I e-mailed the Allen County,
Indiana scoutmaster asking for help with the Hatfield Cemetery in Washington
township, just north of Fort Wayne. The first burial there was in 1836 and
I believe it is still active, last burial being in 1988, however there was a
great part of it completely overgrown with quite a few broken and overturned
headstones. It took six months before I heard anything back, then one day
last summer I got a call from the scouts letting me know that they were
ready to start. There were over 50 people there on that first day, including
two cub scout packs, one boy scout troop and one Varsity scout troop. They
are now about to the fence line, this is only a one acre cemetery, have made
a new sign, are looking for a fence company to donate fencing, and want to
build a shelter with the history of the cemetery. There is one veteran of
the war of 1812, my(GGGG grandfather) there along with 15 civil war
veterans. I have never been a scout and have no sons so I've never been
involved with them before but let me tell you, what a GREAT bunch of people.
They have made Hatfield cemetery a simi-annual project.
Brian E. Smead
Terre Haute, Indiana

> Sue,
> Our county is so small we only have a Part time Scoutmaster. No,
> seriously there is paper work, permission, from parents, property owners,
> Etc, Etc. I don't have time for all of that. I am going to try to get the
> SIGS (Southern Indiana Gen. Soc.) to handle that. I'll see what happens.
When
> I am finished with all of the locating, finding deeds to determine the
sizes
> of the cemeteries, and the owners of the property, there will be in excess
of
> 500 sheets of information to fill out. I think I have that part covered,
all
> I have to do is figure out all of the Information and the Southern Indiana
> Genealogical Society will take that and Put it on paper. Also I have 5
> township Trustees that have no idea where all of their cemeteries are. I
have
> to solve that problem also.
> The Scouts are a great idea, but I don't have time to
complete
> everything else and work with them. I can't spread me that thin. I am
going
> to the local Newspaper, and if I can intrest them in doing a story about
my
> needeing volunteers on weekends to help clear, I might get a Response. But
if
> you could see this country, you would understand their reluctance to come
> forward. Also that would mean besides still only being semi-retired from
the
> Masonry Bussiness, working on my cemetery information, and taking on
weekends
> on clearing, I don't know what to do, or when to do it. I know I
definately
> need help. That I have to work on right away
> Sorry for venting my frustration, I didn't start out to do that. I
never
> do, it just happens.
> Jack E. Briles Sr.
> Floyd Co. PCRP Cooridinator
> PO Box 444
> New Albany, In. 47151-0444
>
>
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