Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Calendar of Cemetery-related Events:

Saturday, May 21: The ‘Veterans Hall of Honor’ will be officially dedicated at the historic courthouse in Union.

Saturday, May 28: Annual Odd Fellows memorial service, followed by a presentation by county commissioner Terry Wilson and a tour of veterans graves at the cemetery. Begins at 9:00. Free Lunch!!

Sunday, May 29: To celebrate Washington’s founding date, the Washington Historical Society will host a “tour” of the Bassora Cemetery / Krog Park at 1:00 p.m.

James Cemetery -- Pacific

Saturday, May 14 at 9:00 a.m., meet at the James Cemetery in Pacific. We’ve been rained and or flooded out twice, but we’re going to try really hard to make it happen! Please join us there.

KROG PARK Probe

Krog Park, probing for and unearthing headstones – Thursday, May 5th at 4:30 p.m. and Saturday beginning at 9:00 a.m. Come rediscover the history of Washington (and Bassora!).

New Tombstone Bases Fabricated

Last Saturday, April 30, several of our members converged on the Odd Fellows building to fabricate bases for five headstones at our Cheatham-Gibson-Coleman Cemetery project. All the bases were made and are at the Lodge building curing. I’m hopeful that one or two more trips to this project site will finish things up! Thanks to those who helped. Some work was also done at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.