🏆 HONORABLE MENTION I found all there was to find

[creskol]

Great Job!!! Congrats!!!!

That you, Digger RJ!

 

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[jewelerguy]

Great job creskol

 

[igloo777]

Have a before pic?

 

[creskol]

Have a before pic?

Here is the before photo

 

[creskol]

Here is a drone photo showing the work in progress

 

[creskol]

Great job creskol

Thank you Jewelerguy!

 

[Gare]

I found all the gravestones there were to find, with the last one being found yesterday afternoon. I got it set, seeded and strawed the area, and although the wind blew the straw around last night, this pretty much concludes my cemetery restoration project, except for cleaning the stones when warm weather gets here to stay.View attachment 2074135
I do not quite know what to say, Mister Creskol The world and USA are lucky to have you in the USA !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your work. You have no idea how much I appreciate you and what you do 1! I VOTE you for BANNER MEMBER !!!! Is there anything i can do to help you ?

 

[Rhapsody]

Here is a drone photo showing the work in progressView attachment 2074728

I don't know the rules of treasurenet regarding honorable mentions but I think this qualifies, not sure how to vote on it

 

[creskol]

I don't know the rules of treasurenet regarding honorable mentions but I think this qualifies, not sure how to vote on it

Thank you .. I appreciate that. Since it has been almost a year in the making, and I posted the updates as I went along, the "happenings" have probably become too fragmented for TreasureNet to consider that as an option. But I do appreciate your kind words.

 

[pepperj]

I tip my hat at this unselfish act of kindness in restoring the plots of many that have been forgotten.
Followed your adventure for sometime, and I was some shocked at fact that you funded this project out of your own pocket.
Your project looks bigger than the following example.

In my township there's a cemetery that the local historians refurbished to a point.
Stood up stones, repaired some, cleaned up the site.
Donations were made to help offset some the expenses.

Just reading in the local rag that there was a bid tender put out by the local municipality to restore the rest.
(Not sure what that included for tender)
1 bid from a company $60K for above ground work-$90K for the part buried
The amount that was budgeted was $30K

 

[Bioheat1969]

Man, I've heard of selfless acts of kindness before, but this is way above and beyond. I applaud you, and all your hard work here.

 

[Bioheat1969]

I'd love to know the full back story onthis, do you have a link to a thread that tells it?

 

[creskol]

I'd love to know the full back story onthis, do you have a link to a thread that tells it?

Digging in an old cemetery today .. Found some nice goodies!

Since I retired from the my construction business, I have taken up my second job that I have been doing for years. I do gravestone restoration, and prior to Memorial Day I went to a local church cemetery that has been neglected over the years. Of the twenty three military markers and stone...

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Nothing found except for personal satisfaction: Revisiting my cemetery restoration project.

I want to share a photograph of my cemetery restoration efforts. All the white markers with black plaques are ones I have made for previously unmarked graves. It has taken countless hours of research to accomplish this and countless hours locating the graves, but my efforts have been...

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I found an empty pocket today .. ( a continuation of my cemetery restoration project)

... An empty pocket of air, that is! In the photo below, you will notice that the gravestone is tilted hard to the left. Also notice that there is a pine tree stump to the left end of the gravestone base, which is left over from a tree I removed early last year when I started the restoration...

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I found another stone today. Sadly, I damaged it a little getting it out of the ground.

I started on the preliminary stages of phase 3 in the cemetery. In the process, I uncovered another gravestone.

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Drone images from my cemetery restoration project:

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Found a BUNCH yesterday and today ..

A bunch of graves that is. I started on Phase 3 of my cemetery restoration project. Just wanted to share what it looks like in the early stages of Phase 3.

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I got one more gravestone fished today

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[creskol]

I'd love to know the full back story onthis, do you have a link to a thread that tells it?

Those links may not be in chronological order, but I think that is all of them.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Wow, hard to believe the church let it get that overgrown. Well done sir. Very honorable mention.

 

[creskol]

Wow, hard to believe the church let it get that overgrown. Well done sir. Very honorable mention.

Thank you very much. Historically, this has been a black church, with many members being quite poor. The church's congregation is dwindling dramatically today - I think there are now only 30 or so members, and only about half of them are active in the church. Sad..

 

[igloo777]

Thanks for the additional photos. The comparison between the before and after really showcases your effort. Well done, sir.

We have a very old cemetery across the street from us that my wife and I often take walks through. The oldest stone I've found is from someone buried in 1760, though many other stones (literally just pieces of slate) appear to be completely eroded or may have been unmarked. Many of the stones are in pretty bad shape, as are the grounds itself (grass is cut, but not much beyond that). The cemetery extends to the other side of the road, and on that side, my wife and I encountered displaced stones buried under a huge fill bank. My guess is their original locations or the engraved names have been lost to history so the church just discarded them. Another point of interest is the stone wall of a neighboring property, which is quite obviously at least partially made of marble stones. It's an old wall, not something constructed recently.

It's a large church in a fair affluent area with an appreciation of history. I don't understand how cemeteries end up like this. I guess there just isn't the money available.

 

[creskol]

Thanks for the additional photos. The comparison between the before and after really showcases your effort. Well done, sir.

We have a very old cemetery across the street from us that my wife and I often take walks through. The oldest stone I've found is from someone buried in 1760, though many other stones (literally just pieces of slate) appear to be completely eroded or may have been unmarked. Many of the stones are in pretty bad shape, as are the grounds itself (grass is cut, but not much beyond that). The cemetery extends to the other side of the road, and on that side, my wife and I encountered displaced stones buried under a huge fill bank. My guess is their original locations or the engraved names have been lost to history so the church just discarded them. Another point of interest is the stone wall of a neighboring property, which is quite obviously at least partially made of marble stones. It's an old wall, not something constructed recently.

It's a large church in a fair affluent area with an appreciation of history. I don't understand how cemeteries end up like this. I guess there just isn't the money available.

Thank you very much. I have always thought an Adopt a Cemetery program of some sort would be neat, but since most of them are private, I guess that wouldn't work.