Eaton County Genealogical Society

Cemetery Symbols Project

2011-11-06T17:30:00.000-08:00

We have been working on the Cemetery Symbols Project for over a year and it is ready for publication! Our website provides a sample of this project at http://www.miegs.org/Symbols.shtml. This also includes the actual Cover Page, Table of Contents and the Index By Name. Check it out!

The CD is priced at $10.60 for pick up at ECGS, or $12.85 for mailing. To order one to mail, please send your check or money order to Eaton County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 337, Charlotte, MI 48813 with the address you want it mailed to.

October 26, 2011 Cemetery Project Meeting

2011-10-26T17:44:00.000-07:00

We had a great final meeting for the 2011 year! Thanks for those of you who were able to make it!

For reading a hard-to-read headstone, we had a suggestion of using corn starch with a chalkboard eraser. I can hardly wait to try that! We have been using flour, which works great, then brushing it back off. But this sounds even easier! Now... to find some erasers!

Our Cemetery Symbols Project will be ready to sell by the ECGS November 9th, 2011 meeting! The project will be a PDF file in the range of 90 pages with over 1,500 thumbnail photos included (both in the document and on the CD). It is priced at $10.60 in the ECGS room, or $12.85 to mail it. Come to the meeting to pick one up for yourself and maybe some more for Christmas presents! Our website shows a sample of the project... Check it out at http://www.miegs.org/Symbols.shtml.

We are in the process of proofreading and finalizing the project. Thanks for the help with these tasks!

Cemetery Project Meeting August 31, 2011

2011-08-31T18:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks Phyllis, Jerry, Liz, Sue, Joyce & Gary for coming to the meeting. I received lots of help in identifying most of the cemetery symbol photos where I was not sure what they were. The Cemetery Symbol Project is moving along. There are still a few cemeteries we would like more photos of. We will probably give this winter as a target date to publish a DVD of this project.

The Cemetery Database has been updated for ECGS.

Completed: Dimondale cemetery photos and index. Gresham cemetery photos and index for Sections A-B-D. Section C still needs to be completed.

Phyllis turned photos and listing in for Rosehill. The mausoleum us the only part of this cemetery that remains to be photographed.

Jerry brought in some photos for Millerburg cemetery.

Cemetery Project Meeting July 27, 2011

2011-07-27T18:43:00.000-07:00

We had a great meeting tonight in the courthouse with no electricity! Liz, Jerry, Joyce, Phyllis, Bruce and I talked about various cemetery subjects.

Benton Township records have been scanned and there is a new cemetery reading for Benton Township (sometimes referred to as Potterville) cemetery and Pinch cemetery with the township records associated with the names on the index. Photographs are completed for the Benton township cemetery.

I was going to demonstrate the Benton Township cemetery reading and another Woodlawn index with associated death record images, but with no electricity, I could not run the computer.

I had several symbols that I was not sure what they were on a flash drive. Liz had her laptop there and had enough battery power to show these. We didn't figure out what they all were, but did decide what a few of them were.

Bruce gave me an updated listing for Freemire and I will compare and update our list in the future. Bruce plans to work on Sunfield cemetery next.

Jerry gave me some cemetery symbols for Brickyard and an Information page for the web.

Phyllis gave me the final Dimondale pictures. She is working on completing Rosehill and taking photos of Munger cemetery next.

Liz is very close to turning in Long cemetery.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something!

Cemetery Project List

2011-06-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Following is the list of Eaton County cemeteries, and the status of each one for various projects. The 1st two columns are the cemetery name and the township or city they are in. The Photos column shows 1 of 3 activities: If there is a year in the column, photos were taken in that year. If there is a name in the column, that person is either working on photos or intends to work on them. If there is nothing, no active work is being done for that cemetery.

The Symbol Pictures column shows whether we have at least a few pictures from the cemetery for our Cemetery Symbols Project. We will want to have some photos from every cemetery before publishing the DVD of the project.

The Entrance column shows whether we have a photo of the entrance and/or sign for the cemetery. This is also part of the Cemetery Symbols Project.

The Info Page column shows whether we have an updated Information page for the cemetery on our Cemeteries website page. Jerry & Vicki have done an outstanding job of going to many of the cemeteries and creating the information pages, including panoramic photos.

If anyone is interested in possibly working on a cemetery, please contact the Eaton County Genealogical Society (see website) and let us know! We would love to give more information about the project! Absolutely NO OBLIGATION!! There are no deadlines to meet and no pressure at all! We are a friendly group of folks who enjoy preserving genealogical information for researchers and it's a great way to make new friends! We are happy to work with new people.

If you notice that I have wrong information in this chart, please e-mail me and let me know! I'll be happy to correct it!

Cemetery Symbols Project (As of June 1, 2011)
Cemetery	Township	Photos	Symbol Pictures	Entrance	Info Page
Bentley	Eaton Rapids	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bosworth	Walton	Marcy/Sherry	Yes	Yes
Brickyard	Eaton Rapids	Steve		Yes
Bunker	Eaton Rapids	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes
Carrier	Brookfield	2006	Yes	Yes
Center Eaton	Eaton	2006	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cogsdill	Kalamo	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Courter/Pray	Windsor	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deepdale Memorial Park	Delta		Yes	Yes	Yes
Delta Center	Delta		Yes	Yes	Yes
Dimondale	Windsor	Phyllis	Yes	Yes	Yes
Follett	Bellevue	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Forest Lawn Memorial	Windsor		Yes	Yes	Yes
Fox	Brookfield	2006	Yes	Yes	Yes
Freemire	Sunfield	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Green	Eaton Rapids	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gresham	Chester	Diana	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hager	Sunfield		Yes	Yes	Yes
Haner	Vermontville	2008	Yes
Hillside	Delta		Yes	Yes	Yes
Kalamo/Hillside	Kalamo	Joyce	Yes	Yes	Yes
Maple Hill	Eaton	Sherry	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mason	Kalamo	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Meadowbrook	Roxand		Yes	Yes	Yes
Millerburg	Carmel	2008	Yes	Yes
Moyer	Roxand		Yes	Yes	Yes
Munger	Eaton Rapids			Yes	Yes
Needmore	Chester	Krys	Yes	Yes	Yes
Oakwood	Oneida	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Oakwood (Hamlin)	Hamlin	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Olivet	Walton		Yes	Yes	Yes
Patterson	Vermontville	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Perry	Brookfield	2006	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pinch/West Benton	Benton	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pioneer	Oneida	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Potterville/Benton Twp.	Benton	Sherry	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rest Haven	Chester	2010	Pics	Yes	Yes
Riverside	Bellevue	Cyd	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rosehill	Hamlin	Phyllis	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skinner	Windsor	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes
South Eaton (Long)	Eaton	Liz	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sowles	Brookfield	2006	Yes	Yes
Spaulding	Bellevue	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Strange (South Oneida)	Oneida	2009	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sunfield	Sunfield		Yes	Yes	Yes
Union/Partlow/Johnson	Oneida	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vermontville	Vermontville	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Welch	Sunfield		Yes	Yes	Yes
West Carmel	Carmel	2008	Yes	Yes
West Windsor	Windsor	2010	Yes	Yes	Yes
Woodlawn	Vermontville	Al & Tina	Yes	Yes

Cemetery Project Meeting May 25 2011

2011-05-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

We had a great meeting tonight! Thanks to Marcy, Jerry & Vicki, Joyce and Phyllis for looking at headstone photos with me to help decide what is on them! One of our bigger topics of discussion tonight was the use of flour (yes... baking flour) on headstones to enhance the names, dates and other information. It is especially useful on granite headstones, but is helpful on most. Following is an example of a headstone where we could not see the information very good because it blended in with the granite, then we put flour on it. (I should have taken a 'before' picture!)

The June cemetery project meeting is being canceled. I will send out an e-mail reminding people that it has been canceled. Hope to see you back the last Wednesday in July!

The Eaton Rapids Historical Society hosted a tour of Rosehill cemetery a week or so ago. Phyllis will see if there is any information we can get a copy of about notable people in the cemetery.

I have (yet another) list of cemeteries and the status of the photos for the entire cemetery and for the symbol project, and for the website information pages. I will get this updated and post it.

2011 Summer Bus Trip and Ancestry Seminar - Fort Wayne, IN

2011-05-11T12:26:00.006-07:00