Shumaker family cemetery project
2003-2009
Shumaker cemetery is located in Wea township on County Rd. 800 South & 450 East
on the north east side of the intersection behind the white
barns. Our project goal
will be to resemble these stones that have been removed from their locations and to restore it to the best of
our abilities.
Support from the new owner and trustee have given us this wonderful opportunity.
We thank them both and all the great volunteers that
contribute their time and labor who will help
us put back our pioneer history and make it available for future generations. A
special thank you to the local
Order of the Arrow troop for all the continued support on this pile of
history. I can't thank you enough! For further questions on this
project email L.A. Clugh  |
See our progress links below. Here is the
burial list with updates 
Burial
list on Find-A-Grave
I updated this every workday
June 2003. The stones are somewhere in this trash pile that was stacked years ago.
AUGUST 9, 2003 The first workday. Thank you everyone you were really great help!
AUGUST 23, 2003
Our second workday we found
several more family stones. What a great
crew. Thank you all for
your help, YOU WERE ALL WONDERFUL!
20 family names have been found so far. And a few new hints of other pioneers that we didn't know about. We
sure
have our work cut out on this one. See the other workdays
below.
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I am thankful for everyone who came to
work with me. It has taken longer that I though due to health problems. I really
feel we have something good here at the end. The research was done by
Joyce Corns-Weigand and she has connected most everyone to Daniel
Shumaker. Most of the children are grand or great-grandchildren. I
am also in the process of adding the family lines to Ancestry.com along with the
tombstones.
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2004 |
| May 2-2004 Mapping row 1 found Geo. Shumaker this established our first row direction. |
| May 8 2004 Working row 1 |
| May 29 2004 Found Daniel, Elizabeth and Silas. |
| July 24, 2004 Repairing |
| Aug.7, 2004 & finished Elizabeth |
| Aug 22
2004 still clearing the pile.
New finds Amos & Rebecca Summers. |
| Nov 11 2004 Benjamin Denton found |
| May 7,2005 found Wm Dehart & Infant Trindle |
| Sept 1,2005 working the top of the pile |
| Sept_5,2005 found Alonzo Lucas & Wm C. Richey around the bottom tree. |
| Sept 13,2005 found part of Frankie Gapen |
| Oct_2,_2005.*the_big_hit* Found John Summers |
| Oct 16, 2005 standing up the Summers section |
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2006 |
| Adaline Crocket Trindle found Adaline Trindle |
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Aug.2006 Another wonderful day with
the Order of
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2007 |
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November 2007 The back trees
were trimmed
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2008 |
| Continued to clean the grounds and work rows for new stones or something to match the pile of broken pieces. Salina Q. Dehart and Allen Trindle |
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2009 |
| Sept.12 We installed an above ground memorial display box. To many tombstones have been destroyed to fix. |
| Sept 19th workday Cleaned grounds straightened and worked on repairs. |
| Sept 26 |
If you have any questions about this
project please
email me at this link.
L.A. Clugh
If your inclined to send a thank you note to
the
Township Trustee. Here is his address
or email.
Mr.
Matthew Koehler
4345 Wea
Ridge Road
Lafayette, IN 47909
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Photos and page © by L.A.
Clugh
2003 -2009 Tippecanoe County INPCRP