Person:Lincoln Gourley (1)

Licking Cemetery Improvements Posted by: lmwalls (IP Logged) Date: June 13, 2006 12:25PM

LICKING CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS AND LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS (source and date unknown but had to be after March 1922 which was the death date of S. D. Burns, listed below.)

In justice to the people who so generously contributed to the improvements of the Licking cemetery last fall, we wish to say that the members of that association are thankful for the same and are proud of the work that has been done. The entire plot is green from one end to the other and a large circular flower bed provided by Mr. and Mrs. F. C. McEwen ornaments the center of the cemetery. To start with the proposition of F. C. McEwen of Sligo and W. C. McEwen of New Bethlehem was accepted, that they would contribute $500 if the association raise a like amount, making $1000.00 for which the entire cemetery was to be improved as follows: All old sod, weeds and briers to be removed. Then the tombstones were to be straightened up and the sunken graves filled up and the high places removed and leveled off. Then the entire surface was to be dug over six inches deep and fertilized with both lime and phosphate and to be thoroughly pulverized and raked over smooth and sowed in grass seed. This has all been done; also a walk made the entire length of the cemetery and a drive-way of stone covered with ashes made across the short way of the cemetery. The following is a list of the parties who so generously donated the following amounts. Addresses of those who no longer reside in the community are given. Those marked with a star have died since the work commenced last autumn and their remains now lie in the cemetery: F. C. McEwen, Sligo $250.00 W. C. McEwen, N. Beth 250.00 Sally Tramer 36.00 Walley Myers Family 30.00 Mary J. Kifer 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. Emory Harriger 25.00 Henry Harriger * 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sumerville 25.00 C. V. Curll 25.00 M. H. Cochell 25.00 R. E. English, Grove City 25.00 Mrs. Milton Hepler 25.00 Arthur Pritner, Butler 20.00 Mrs. Awilda Curll 20.00 Lillian Argard, Atlanta, Ga. 20.00 T. J. Keever, Ohio 16.00 Mrs. A. W. Neely, Foxburg 15.00 H. K. Curll, Chicago 15.00 W. D. Curll, Petersburg, Ind. 15.00 L. E. Gourley 15.00 Annie Wilson, N. Beth RD 15.00 Mrs. Tine Myers 15.00 Dr. C. L. Myers, Pittsburgh 10.00 Cash 10.00 Mrs. M. H. Cochell 10.00 Tate Henry 10.00 Mrs. R. E. Lee 10.00 R. J. Walters 10.00 W. F. Myers 10.00 John M. Myers 10.00 D. A. Myers and wife 10.00 S. C. Myers 10.00 Mrs. Mary Mooney 10.00 B. C. Harriger 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gourley 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Shirey 10.00 Laura B. Patrick 10.00 Alice Bittenbender 10.00 Mary Patrick 10.00 H. A. McKee 10.00 S. D. Burns * 10.00 John A. Fleming, Knox 10.00 J. E. Myers 10.00 Ambrose Myers 10.00 Pritner Family, Clarion 6.00 D. M. Courson 5.00 J. M. Harriger 5.00 Bird McElravy 5.00 Wade Corbett 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sumerville 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. J. St. John 5.00 Grace Newell * 5.00 F. H. Newell 5.00 S. G. Thompson 5.00 H. P. McKee 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Sumerville 5.00 E. W. Pritner 5.00 H. A. Everage 5.00 Ben Miller 5.00 Mrs. Mollie Lerch 5.00 Mrs. J. G. Merryman 5.00 M. T. Myers 5.00 F. B. Fidles 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Myers 5.00 Lillian Irvin 5.00 Mrs. T. J. Fox 5.00 Mrs. Mary Mooney 5.00 James Campbell 5.00 David Hilliard * 5.00 E. L. Wendell 5.00 Mrs. Mary Pritner 5.00 Ray Fox 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ketner 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rostas 5.00 E. L. Phillips 5.00 F. L. Myers 5.00 J. B. Myers 5.00 Samuel Eaker 5.00 Walter Anderson 5.00 Arthur Pritner 5.00 Nancy Diffenbacher 5.00 Mrs. Delia Seifert 5.00 Elias Fox 2.00 W. S. Opelt 2.00 M. E. Smith 2.00