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Announcements:
Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration, Inc. will be exhibiting at The Township
Officials of Illinois 104rd Annual Educational Conference, November 6-7, 2011
in Springfield, Illinois. Click here for more information about the educational sessions scheduled for this year's TOI Educational Conference.
Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration, Inc. has teamed with Crystal Clear Maintenance, Inc. for a Pioneer
Cemetery Restoration project at Naval
Support Activity Crane located in Crane, Indiana. The project will involve the restoration
of gravestones at eleven historical cemeteries and will begin October 31, 2011.
Bronze Good Citizenship Award from the Indiana Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, July 30, 2011
Compatriot Ed Hitchcock presented the SAR Bronze Good Citizenship award to Helen Wildermuth. At her expense
as a public service, she picked up the stones and set each one of them in separate cemeteries. One stone was
for Rev. War Patriot John Carney buried in Bick Farm Cemetery and the other stone was Rev. War Patriot Nicholas
Jones in Jones/Yeley Cemetery.
Pictured left to right, Dave Betzner INSSAR Pres, Helen Wildermuth and Edward Hitchcock
who serves on the Revolutionary War Graves committee of the INSSAR.
News:
Kelly, Terry; Palatine Township Assessor
Pioneer
cemeteries in Palatine Township being restored (link)
Daily Herald; Arlington Heights, Illinois; October 7, 2010
Kelly, Terry; Township Assessor
Pioneer cemeteries being restored (44K pdf)
Trib Local; Palatine, Illinois; October 1, 2010
Stanley, Greg; Staff Writer
Rockton township cemetery to restore 60 headstones (48K pdf)
Rockford Register Star, Rockford, Illinois; September, 14, 2010
Inman, Nicole; Correspondent
Stonehuggers restore cemetery (94K pdf)
Beloit Daily News, Beloit, Wisconsin; September 14, 2010
Fahr, Matthew; Armada Times Reporter
Lee Cemetery restoration nearly complete (84K pdf)
The Voice, Armada Times; September, 8, 2010
Kelly, Terry; Assessor Palatine Township
How to Care for our Pioneer Cemeteries Presentation (156K pdf)
Trib Local; Palatine, Illinois; August 27, 2010
Peverly, Ryan; R-H Staff Writer
Harrison
trustees restoring local cemeteries (244K pdf)
The Register-Herald; Eaton, Ohio; May 12, 2010
Valentine, Erin; Associate Editor
Restoring Stones to their Original State (320K pdf)
Township Perspective; Springfield, Illinois; April 2010
Short, Christopher
County history gets a facelift (link)
The Paper of Montgomery County (online); Crawfordsville, Indiana; March 31, 2010
No job is too big or small!
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