Burial
list on Find-A-Grave
I updated this every workday. Click to see the Google map for location in 2007.
Shumaker family cemetery project
2003-2010
| 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 Matthew Koehler Wea township trustee have given us this wonderful opportunity to shave family history. 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! |
See our progress links below. Here is the
burial list with updates Burial
list on Find-A-Grave
I updated this every workday. Click to see the Google map for location in
2007.
June 2003. The stones are somewhere in this trash pile that was stacked years ago.
AUGUST 9, 2003
The first workday. Cleaning the grounds and investigating what is what.
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. Thank you Order of the Arrow's. You were AWESOME!
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2004 |
| May 2-2004 Mapping row 1, we 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. Who is he? |
| May 7,2005 found Wm Dehart & Infant Trindle |
| Sept 1,2005 working the top of that pile for more pieces |
| Sept_5,2005 found Alonzo Lucas & Wm C. Richey around the bottom tree. |
| Sept 13,2005 found part of Frankie Gapen & the tree of life in the pile. |
| Oct_2,_2005.*the_big_hit* Found the missing John Summers. Not recorded before. YEA! |
| Oct 16, 2005 standing up again, the Summers section |
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2006 |
| Adaline Crocket Trindle we 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. New finds: Salina Q. Dehart and Allen Trindle |
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2009 |
| Sept.12 An amazing workday. We installed an above ground memorial display box and cleaned stones to go into the box. So many tombstones were to destroyed to fix. |
| Sept 19th workday Cleaned grounds straightened and worked on repairs and the display box. |
| Sept 26
2010 David is still matching pieces and cleanup.
Nov.? George
and I placed several baby stones in
a memorial setting. Attached the top to Catherine (Cruea) Summers.
Its looking much better
2010 We reset George Shumaker with a brand new base and now we are all done here. Yes it is looking like a real cemetery again. :-) :-) :-) :-)
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I am thankful for everyone who came to work with me. This project has taken longer that I thought due to my own health problems. I really feel we have something good here at the end. A special thanks to David R. Summers who came from Kokomo, Indiana to work every year with me on this project. He is descends from Elizabeth (Shumaker) Summers who married John Summers. Their tombstone were not recorded in the past. It was his goal to locate these tombstones for his family. We not only did that, we added several babies to the family tree. Daniel Shumaker was married to two wives. Joyce Corns-Weigand descends from Daniel's second wife; Rebecca Chenoweth. She has researched the Sumaker family. In her research we were able to connected almost everyone to Daniel
Shumaker. Most of the children are grand or great-grandchildren. I
have added the family lines to Ancestry.com along with the tombstones to help
other families connect. On Ancestry.com this Public Members Tree is
called: "Daniel Shumaker Family Tree Virginia to Tippecanoe County Indiana"
As of April 2010, I have not found where Daniel Shumaker {1790-1847} was born, or who his parents are. It seems possible George Shumaker {1805-1876} could be his younger brother that migrated with him. If anyone knows the parents, please email me. All the names and tombstones are also on the Shumaker Find-A-Grave site linked above. Daniel was the original land owner who purchased 80 Acres from the Crawfordsville land office on 2 Apr 1829 and another 80 on 10 Apr 1829. This cemetery is on his original farm. We have found biographies on some members of Daniels family it show a migration from Rockingham County Virginia to Ross County Ohio. I have them linked below. Please email me if you can help with Daniel or his first wife Barbara ?. A list of biographies I have found or others have shared. Thanks again everyone. L.A. Clugh
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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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Clugh
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