TX-CEMETERIES-L Archives

From: "Diane Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] helpful teens
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:43:13 -0400
References: <081420061525.3876.44E095F10006A33000000F242160280748CECA090A@att.net>

Wow! Elaine what a great idea and a great way to develop leadership and to
get our kids involved!
great job...
D

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TXCem] helpful teens


> In May my 14 year old son and 16 year old niece were helping us map a
> cemetery and were photographed and featured in a news story in the local
> paper. They mentioned how tireless the kids were in doing the work. (The
> rest of us DID get tired!)
>
> A few years ago as we were planning to catalog the De Leon Cemetery (a
> quarter of a mile square), I was inspired to ask my 4 teenagers to be in
> charge of it. They jumped at the chance to be "the boss". They helped
> string "caution tape" to divide the cemetery into 50 sections. Then we
> gave them notebooks and pens, and gave them each a fourth of the cemetery
> to be in charge of. As people from the neighborhood came in to help, the
> boys would assign sections, give instructions, and take care of little
> problems. I couldn't have covered all that area by myself.
> --
> Elayne Pair Gibbons
> www.PairPlace.net
>
>
> -------------- Original message from : --------------
>
>> Good morning
>> These school age kids can do some good works!! A few years ago, a little
>> troup of LDS Boy Scouts were walking around in the Hall Cemetery near
>> Carbondale
>> IL with probe stickes trying to find head stones that had been knocked
>> over
>> and covered with dirt. They found the headstone of my gg gm Mary Ann
>> Davis
>> Clinton. It had been under the dirt for so long that it was in wonderful
>> condition. A cousin happened to be out there that day and identified the
>> headstone,
>> went back later and washed it and took photos.
>> Happy day!!
>> Joanne Truman
>>
>> In a message dated 8/14/06 9:10:26 AM Central Daylight Time,
>> writes:
>> < ... , I just called my local middle school. They have a group of kids
>> who stay at the school after school (school age
>> < care- we used to call it latchkey) and I got permission to take them
>> (with their parents permission) on a cemetery
>> < tour after school during the next school year.
>> > Maybe I can get them to do some cemetery clean up in my personal
>> > favorite
>> pet project place! Oh the ideas.....
>> >
>> Diane - you're a gal after my heart! I love your idea with the kids.
>> Hopefully others will pick up on this! Good luck with the venture!
>> Trevia
>>
>> ==== TX-CEMETERIES Mailing List ====
>> Visit our web site
>> Historic Texas Cemeteries http://www.historictexas.net/cemeteries or
>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txcemeteries
>
>
> ==== TX-CEMETERIES Mailing List ====
> Looking for a Texas County? Visit the the TXGenWeb site:
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/
>
>

This thread:

• Re: [TXCem] helpful teens by

  • Re: [TXCem] helpful teens by "Diane Williams" <>