Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education (S.H.A. P. E.)

Update to Ladoga Cemetery Gallery

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gpthelastrebel
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Added about 10 photos to the Lodoga cemetery gallery beginning the 1st photo after the scanned doc. These are photos of new headstone dedications by the Indiana SCV. Thanks to Mr. William Booone and Steve Ritchie for their efforts . Many thanks to Mark Raines for his dedication and efforts to provide headstone to Southern heroes.

Email To Mark Raines–

Here is one of over 10 Memorial Ceremonies that took place over the past 3 months in Indiana. SHAPE was responsible for obtaining over 40 grave markers for Confederates buried in Indiana.

Had a good turnout at the dedication today. Steve, I met Dave Klinestiver and Tom Williams. Both said to say Hi. Here are some pictures. Both local newpapers had articles and I will send them a couple of pictures and notes on the event.
Bill

More stones obtained by SHAPE.

Coffman and Cash.

It would be interesting to know if this Cash was related to Johnny Cash the singer.

These photos are found on the old Shape website —Image Gallery : All Albums – Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education

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    gpthelastrebel

    Another email just received.
    GP
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    Steve, Mark, and Jackie
    How about this for a note in the next dispatch or some other publication
    or meeting that you are in charge of?
    Josh 4:6 says “That this may be a sign among you, that when your children
    ask their fathers in time to come, saying ‘What mean ye by these stones?’
    Then ye shall answer them…’These stones are a memorial unto the children
    of Israel forever.” In the same way, we place memorial stones to honor
    Confederate heroes so that we will always remember their sacrifice. When
    someone asks about the stone of James Anderson, we will remind them that
    this young Tennessee Volunteer was among 14,000 or 15,000 Confederate
    troops surrendered at Ft. Donelson and shipped North to prisoner of war
    camps. James Anderson was on his way to a POW camp in Lafayette, IN, when
    he died on the troop train outside Crawfordsville and was buried in an
    unmarked grave in Old Town Cemetery on the edge of Crawfordsville. We
    placed this stone in memory of James Anderson so that when someone asks
    about the stone, we can tell them the story of this brave Confederate
    soldier who died far away from home and is buried in an unmarked grave,
    the whereabouts of which is know only to God.
    After reading this, someone could show a picture of the Anderson stone and
    read the poem “The Solitary Stone,” that I gave you which I found in the
    SCV magazine. This would make a nice little presentation before an SCV
    meeting or an article in some type of SCV publication.
    Bill
    P.S. Steve: I sent Jackie the two data-bases. They are as up-to-date as
    I can make them right now. I am always looking for more vets and
    information, but I’ll pass it along as I come up with it. Use the
    data-bases in whatever way you see fit.

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