Sheep Pen Cemetery Update: More Gravestones Cleaned, Repaired and Reset

Scott Andersen reports that more gravestones at the Sheep Pen Cemetery were cleaned, repaired, and reset on July 21st.  This additional work follows the success of the day long June 25, 2016 hands-on workshop where a large number of gravestones received significant attention resolving various condition issues that had been adversely impacting many of the fragile 19th century tablets and markers.  

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Through the generosity and hard work of the all-volunteer crew of Scott, his wife Venus, and the stalwart regulars from the Greenfield Historical Society who have been restoring the Old Burying Ground in their village; the Sheep Pen Cemetery has been transformed from appearing almost abandoned to boasting an impressively improved condition normally associated with an active 21st Century cemetery filled with modern day polished granite  markers and monuments.  

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Thanking Scott for sharing some of the photographs taken during this latest work session at the Sheep Pen Cemetery:   

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The rear area of Sheep Pen Cemetery where the Margaret and Samuel Yohn gravestones are located. 

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The Margaret Yohn stone being lifted up for resetting upright.  

The photograph below shows her stone after it was reset.

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Cleaned and repaired grave marker for Samuel Yohn

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Left to right:

  Gravestones of Christina (Beals) Bennett, the small marker of daughter Nancy C. Bennett and Jesse K. Bennett

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The small marble gravestone of Corp. N. T. McVay its pieces clamped together during the repair stage followed by a photograph of it without clamps.

Below are three photographs showing the rows of repaired and cleaned grave markers at the Sheep Pen Cemetery in Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio: