1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll Boone County, Indiana January 1, 1883

201,605 Seay, Abraham  white Lick par. deafness
      both ears 2.00 Jan., 1882
147,486 Thompson, James A. White Lick chr. diarr 8.00 -
213,788 Smith, Jacob F.  White Lick chr. diarr 2.00 June, 1882
129,427 Albert, John B.  White Lick ---------- 6.00 Aug., 1874
14,472 Long, Rebecca  White Lick widow 1812 8.00 Jan., 1879
12,036 Smith, Nancy  White Lick widow 1812 8.00 Nov., 1878

Where have we been?????

The Boone County 4-H Fair starts on Friday, and Ray, Bud(husband/father) and I have been busy getting ready for fair; plus I have been judging county fair projects around the state.  So Howard Cemetery except for planning has be on the back burner.  Ray has eleven 4-H projects that he has completed. He is receiving the Farm Bureau Tenure Award for Outstanding 4-H member and he will be receiving his Ten Year Completion award the last night of fair. It is a very bitter sweet ending to his 4-H career, I remember the excitement of his first year, and soon it will be all over.  Where did the time go, our little boy has grown into a young man; in a blink of an eye.  Time has been so swift and fleeting, it runs through our fingers no matter how hard we want to stop and enjoy it. 
This year he did a project about the work that he has put into the cemetery.  He was figuring up his hours that he has physically worked in the cemetery; and he has put in 50 hours of work at the cemetery.  This does not count the hours researching the interned. Wow, that's a lot of work for one young man to have volunteered to do.  Yesterday, was Nelson Mandela's Birthday and he wanted everyone to donate 67 hours of community service to their community, as a birthday present.  I thought that would be easy, then I look at our project and realize getting 67 minutes is hard; and maybe that is not so easy for so many busy families.   
Rayke (Ray) has been riding daily, which means rising very early; as Indiana is in the middle of a horrid heat wave, the heart index is supposed to be 115 by Friday, the day he shows his horse.  This is not typical Indiana weather, and yes I am a believer of global warming!  My mother in law you is in her mid 80's and has lived here her entire life, and she never remembers the heat being this bad!    We keep a close eye on the farm animals and our dogs.  The dogs have the "Life of Riley" as all four are inside dogs.  But for dogs who normally like to play outside they are not even wanting to go out in the heat.  
So after the end of fair, back to Howard Cemetery and cleaning and repairing the stones.  It is such rewarding work!!!  Then in early August we go to another Cemetery Restoration Workshop.

Busy Morning

Had a nice morning meeting up with Pat Buedel one of Boone County Master Gardeners that will be helping with the landscaping for phase one of our project.  Ray got to stay home and put his pages back into his genealogy book for fair.  I hope I did not overwhelm her with my cemetery tour, I know way more about Howard Cemetery, than most people would like to hear.  She was very gracious and listened to me prattle on as we toured the cemetery.  We discussed the need to keep the plantings native to Indiana, and what we want to achieve in this first planting phase. 
I have to give the birds of Boone County a good talking too, as they are mucking up the stones.  So if any one in Boone County sees a crazy lady talking to birds in a cemetery, stop by and say Hi.  We need a good hard rain to get rid of their mess. 
Bill Coan of the Howard School Project stopped by with the deed for the cemetery and the deed to the purchase by John A. Everett of the Howard School Property.  Both are greatly appreciated, and will add to the documentation for the cemetery. 

Ground Penetrating Radar

On August 3rd we are having the cemetery surveyed with ground penetrating radar. This is being done in a effort to locate the positions of any missing burial sites. This should be a very interesting expedition.

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Find us on the Internet and on Social Media

Howards Cemetery Restortion and Preservation Project has it's own Facebook Page, and we have posted many names for the cemetery on Find A Grave under the cemetery name, that the site did not have previously listed and linked family members. 

The stone of the Reed Funkhouser Family

First I need to thank Rebecca L. Armstrong Merritt for tracking down who set the stone for the family of Reed Funkhouser.  In an earlier post I had surmised that the stone was not a period piece  as the cuts in the granite were far to deep for the time period for some of the deaths.  Becky and I had been having email correspondence about the stone and the death date of Tennis Funkhouser, as his stone date differs from a period book written by PT Lambert about the Turpin Family, as Rachel, Reed's wife was a Turpin by birth.  Becky confirmed that the stone was not period, and confirmed with the descendants of the Funkhouser family the stone placement. Bill Funkhouser the son of Paul Turpin Funkhouser is the source for this information.  The stone was bought and set by Paul and his sister Bernice Funkhouser Tackett, after the death of Reed.  It was done some years after the death of Reed.  Tennis as far as anyone can tell never had a stone prior to this, neither did Rachel.   The date on the stone according to the family is the correct date, and the death date in PT Lambert's book is a typo.  One hunt solved, more to do.

Karen Everett

Ellen Smith nee Howard stone 5-9

Ellen Smith age 42 years 1month 11 days. Wife of Anderson J. Smith