{"id":578,"date":"2006-04-25T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2006-04-25T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:06:34","slug":"160-year-old-cemetery-restored-monroeville-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/04\/25\/160-year-old-cemetery-restored-monroeville-in\/","title":{"rendered":"160 Year Old Cemetery Restored (Monroeville, IN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Leininger has an article in the News-Sentinenel (Fort Wayne, IN), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/fortwayne\/news\/local\/14424014.htm\">Groups unite to restore 160-year-old cemetery near Monroeville<\/a> about a genealogist and county coming together to help clean up a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Except from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life is returning to a long-neglected cemetery in southeast Allen County a century after the last burial there, thanks to an unlikely alliance between government officials and one man who refused to let the past die.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first time I came out here, it was so sad I cried,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Adam Barrone, 28, whose childhood fascination with his grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family history stories led to a job in the Allen County Public Library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s genealogy department and to a discovery that has consumed him for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>When Barrone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research led him to the 160-year-old Brown family cemetery south of Monroeville eight years ago, it seemed little had been done to maintain the half-acre plot since Sophia Rider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s burial in 1906. Many headstones had nearly been wiped smooth by a century of wind and rain. Some had broken or toppled over; others had sunken deep into the soil. A dense thicket of trees, bushes and weeds made the cemetery nearly invisible from nearby Whittern Road.<\/p>\n<p>But that is changing, thanks to $20,000 from the county and the help of various organizations who, like Barrone, believe the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pioneers deserve not only to rest in peace, but in dignity as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surprising he&#8217;s so young, but great to see people are taking an interest in preserving these before they are lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Leininger has an article in the News-Sentinenel (Fort Wayne, IN), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/fortwayne\/news\/local\/14424014.htm\">Groups unite to restore 160-year-old cemetery near Monroeville<\/a> about a genealogist and county coming together to help clean up a cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}