In September of 2001 a visit was made to this cemetery to record the headstone inscriptions. I found this cemetery is such poor condition that I decided to start a project to restore this cemetery, along with other cemeteries in the Town of Caroline. Over the winter months I made phone calls and wrote letters trying to locate family members of those buried here. I was lucky to find a few caring people and from there the project was underway. In the very early spring a few of us went in this cemetery for a clean up day. We found it would take many more hours to restore many of the broken and fallen headstones. Many headstones were repaired, many more were found after falling and covered with sod.

I am proud to say after over 220 hours of labor the cemetery has been restored. This photo above shows all the over growth before the clean up project started. The photo was taken September 5, 2001. (Click on the photo to see a larger image.) This photo above was taken of Dennis Whittaker repairing headstones. Dennis worked over 120 hours of labor re-setting and repairing headstones & monuments. Thank you Dennis!

Photo taken September 21st 2002

Credits:

A total to date of 35 headstones were found that had fallen and were under sod. A total of over 220 hours have been spent clearing brush, trees and debris removal to restore this cemetery. Volunteers at this time are: Janet Nash, Steve Nash, Randy Crispell, Greg Crispell, Paul Crispell, Cathy Knauff, Dennis Whittaker & Jessie Davis. Many headstones had fallen and were in need of repair. Dennis Whittaker has done the repair on the damaged headstones and has done an outstanding job! Thank you to all of you for your volunteer work in this project.

A project to collect donations has been underway to help pay for the expenses to restore this cemetery, plus to maintain what we have restored. At this time we would like to thank the following for their donations that helped greatly to restore this cemetery. Linda Ely, Florence Starr, Janet Nash, Dennis Whittaker.