Greenbush Cemetery & Lafayette City Cemetery
project 2011
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I will be starting in the Old Lafayette City Section 4 this spring. We will work through this whole section trying to locate all parts to match the file. (see below) Step by step procedures are laid out on this webpage. |
Links that help. Map. Map 2 flicker. [Plat of Old Lafayette City Sections 1-2- 3 & 4]
![[Plat of Old Lafayette City Sections 1-2- 3 & 4]](Sections_of_Lafayette_City_cemetery%201-4.jpg){kind=link}
Findagrave many names need a tombstone added. Please help me correct this list.
One book -- but not all the early burials.
Confederate
POWs at Greenbush Cemetery Forgotten Chapter in
Lafayette's Civil War
Book written by Mary Blair Immel. Beneath these Stones
Timeline. (coming soon) Founders.
| April 2, 2011 1pm | Tour Greenbush. Showed some symbols and history areas. Looked at cleaning a tombstone for proper dates. More on symbols. |
| April 20 Wed. 5pm | Meet to explore Section 4 of Lafayette City cemetery Download the Excel file April 20 2011. Watch it grow and change. *Permit was received* |
| April 23. Sat 1pm | Continuing section 4. Please let me know if you have updates to the file. |
| May---Aug. |
Sorry, things are on hold do to an injury. |
| I hope to return by late summer.
Until then we are working back through the records. Evaluating
the tree situation at Greenbush. Many need to come down.
Money is a big issue here, there is not any coming in. This is a
closed cemetery and has been for years.
There is also trimming still needed for low growing branches. Bushes need removed as well as the many vines that are growing. Yes, some poison ivy and oak. Also those groundhogs are still there. They cause so much damage and need to be removed before any tombstone restoration begins. I will send the email rounds out as soon as I can begin again. Happy summer to you all. L.A. |
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| Preliminary survey and photos *** After the previously mentioned paperwork is complete, the restoration work can begin. Initially, only enough brush and debris should be removed to allow access to the cemetery. This will permit volunteers to begin the work of photographing and surveying the cemetery. It is important to be as accurate as possible during this phase of the process. Every grave will not be found in the beginning and each new grave should be added to the map and survey as it is discovered. Photograph the site from several different angles. Your photos may need to be used as a reference later on. Don't forget to include all the footstones and fence rows, around old trees any rocks that may be in the burial rows. They may be marking a grave too, see 1 & 2. & Photographing Tips Clearing
of brush, weeds, and limbs Creating plat map and survey and second photo series. We will us the file above to create the map. Unless anyone is a map specialist. |
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| Stone Cleaning supplies
A note of caution, their are many new products out on the market for stone cleaning. Please understand you are working with historic family monuments, mostly over 150 years ago. These 3 cleaners below have been proven safe and are recommended in the books. Who can really say what these new cleaners will do to the surfaces? As my mother told me, "don't do anything you can't live with later" . Please don't make the surface worse. If all you can do is get it wet and photograph, then just do that. No chalk or shaving cream......please.
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I use XnView for graphic files. It's free.
© Copyright L.A. Clugh April 2011