On Thursday, June 5, 2008 the society met at the Griswold Cemetery at Marthasville, Warren County. The group chose to tackle the Griswold Cemetery even though it’s not in Franklin County. Several of the group’s members had worked at Griswold a number of years ago and had intended to go back and finish it, but that hadn’t happened.
About twelve volunteers, including the Marthasville Police Chief, showed up to help. Nine tombstones were firmly re-set in their bases and several more stones were leveled out. In the Wilkinson family plot, the bases for Samuel and Martha Wilkinson’s stones were uncovered after the area was thoroughly weed-eated. The police chief offered to try and find a less than average citizen who needs to do some community service work and who may be able to reinstall some of the brick wall that originally surrounded the two Wilkinson graves. Samuel Wilkinson’s stone was re-set and the stone of Martha, which is beyond repair, was neatly stacked as best we could on her grave. The gravestone of William Shaw Hughes, which had been repaired by volunteers a number of years ago, had fallen and broken again. Repair work was done to this stone and will be finished on the next visit. Some hand-cleaning of four tombstones was accomplished as well.
The Griswold Cemetery will be revisited on Thursday, June 12 with work beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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