By Tamie Dehler
Special to the Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE
April 26, 2008 07:49 pm
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The Hixon Cemetery Association of Parke County will conduct a one-day gravestone restoration workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 7. The workshop will consist of a classroom session in which gravestone cleaning and restoration techniques will be discussed, followed by hands-on experience in a cemetery working with actual gravestones.
The classroom portion of the day will take place at the Parke County Learning Center in Rockville. Topics to be covered will be an overview of state laws that apply to cemeteries, how to research and locate cemeteries, how to photograph and transcribe gravestones, and techniques to clean, repair, and restore gravestones.
Following the classroom segment, the group will then go to the Hixon Cemetery in Parke County, located about 2 miles from Mecca, and will continue the learning experience in the field by cleaning and restoring gravestones. There will also be a demonstration using a tripod lift for moving large stones and a demonstration on how to cast a new slotted base for old upright stones.
The instructor for the class will be Jessica Felix, a Roachdale woman with degrees in art education and fine arts from Purdue University and Indiana Wesleyan University. She has five years experience in restoring old gravestones, which includes managing the restoration of seven cemeteries in Hendricks County, Indiana.
The workshop enrollment will be limited to 25 persons. The cost for the day is $15 for Hixon Cemetery Association members and $20 for non-members. For more information, call (765)569-5935, e-mail mblewman@yahoo.com; to register, send your check to the Hixon Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 525, Montezuma, IN 47862.
The PBS series “History Detectives” asks the question, “Did your family make a mark on history?” If your family history is connected to a significant event or person in history, this investigative program might be interested in researching and airing your story.
If you watched last season, you might have seen the episode on Ernie Pyle’s typewriter, which brought History Detective Wes Cowan to Indiana. Or you may have seen the episode in June 2006 when the History Detectives visited Terre Haute to check out a miniature brass Jefferson Davis spy glass.
The program is again looking to the public for story ideas. Any submission should have a tie to history and have a mystery to solve. To learn more about the history detectives and what they do, to check out their investigations from previous seasons, or to submit you own family’s genealogical or historical mystery, go to www.pbs.org/opb/
historydetectives/.
• I seek information on George W. Lind (born July 1837, died Dec. 28, 1907) and his wife Diana Johnson (born March 1846, died Dec. 7, 1907). They died at the home of their son, Winfield H. Lind, in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. George and Diana moved to Danville in October 1907 from Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois. He was a harness maker from 1870 to 1900, and they were also living in Ancona, Livingston County, Illinois in 1860. Their children were Jessie E. Lind (born December 1858 and married Andrew J. Gabler) and Winfield H. Lind (born November 1863). Please contact John Bierman, 5273 Bittersweet Dr., Dayton, OH 45429, e-mail biermajw@notes.udayton.edu.
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