Name: Beaver Island families organize a cemetery gravestone-completion project, 2011
Start: 2011-03-14
End: 2011-04-04
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island families organize a cemetery gravestone-completion project, 2011

Also Beaver Island cemetery gravestone dates project 2011

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TypeEvent

Dates2011-03-14 – 2011-04-04

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Dates: 2011-03-14 – 2011-04-04
Kind: Preservation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitydeathheritagepreservation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In March 2011, Beaver Island families organized a project to add missing dates and finish selected cemetery gravestones. The organizer reported that families had supplied information and that the work was moving forward by April 4.

Evidence limits

This is a community preservation effort documented through forum updates, not a completion report, contractor record, cost ledger, or independent cemetery inventory.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beth Anne Lucas, "Gravestones," Beaver Island Forum, March 14–April 4, 2011.
The organizer listed ten markers needing dates, described coordination with Ron Winchester and Rod Nackerman, and later reported that family information had been compiled and the work was moving forward. The forum does not establish completion, final costs, or the accuracy of every listed name or date.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003249

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island families organize a cemetery gravestone-completion project, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cemetery-gravestone-completion-project-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beth Anne Lucas, "Gravestones," Beaver Island Forum, March 14–April 4, 2011..

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