July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Students, DAR team up (5/28/05)
Donations will help honor Revolutionary War veterans
Students, DAR team up (5/28/05)
By By Mike Snyder-
A gift from two third grade classes at a local elementary school will help honor the memory of five soldiers who fought in our country’s first war.
Bricks will be purchased at Freedom Park for five veterans of the Revolutionary War who have Jay County connections, thanks to a donation from the third graders and the efforts of the Mississinewa Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Three of the five soldiers to be honored are buried in Jay County. One is buried in Adams County and the other in Randolph County, just south of the Jay-Randolph line.
Bricks will be purchased in the names of Abijah Phelps, Michael Counkle, William Cline, George Emery and John Harford.
Site work on Freedom Park, which will be located on the east side of South Meridian Street near the Jay Community Center and East Jay Middle School, is scheduled to begin next week. Continued from page 1
The park will include a fountain surrounded by a plaza of bricks honoring veterans.
The cost of each brick is $100. Students at the two Bloomfield third grade classes, taught by Bonnie Badders and Bonita Frazee, donated a combined total of $400 towards the effort, with the local DAR chapter furnishing the rest.
“We’re just elated ... we didn’t think we had the money (to buy the bricks) until these children came up with the money,” Rita Leggett, Regent (leader) of the local DAR chapter, said this week.
The third graders at Bloomfield, who started with a combined $200 from The Portland Foundation’s Care and Share program, turned that into a little more than $500 by purchasing and re-selling suckers.
In addition to donating $400 to the DAR effort, the third graders also purchased a brick to honor all veterans who have attended Bloomfield Elementary School.
Doug Inman, executive director of the foundation, helped bring the DAR and the Bloomfield students together. He had talked separately to Patricia Beard and Leggett from the DAR and Badders about efforts to buy bricks for Freedom Park.
After receiving a call from Badders proposing the Bloomfield students help out the DAR, Beard said “we were thrilled to death ... I hope this will encourage others to put their relatives’ names on bricks.”
“We planned to buy at least one brick, and when I called Doug Inman ... that’s when he let me know the DAR was interested in buying bricks for the five veterans of the Revolutionary War,” Badders said Friday.
Harford, a seaman who was 14-years-old at the end of the Revolutionary War, is buried in Green Park Cemetery, while Counkle and Phelps are each buried in Daugherty Cemetery which is located west of New Corydon near the intersection of Jay County roads 550 East and 900 North.
Emery was laid to rest in the Loofborrow Cemetery in Adams County, while Cline, who was 106-years-old at the time of his death in 1953, is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, which is on Randolph County road 800 East, just south of the Jay-Randolph line.[[In-content Ad]]
Bricks will be purchased at Freedom Park for five veterans of the Revolutionary War who have Jay County connections, thanks to a donation from the third graders and the efforts of the Mississinewa Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Three of the five soldiers to be honored are buried in Jay County. One is buried in Adams County and the other in Randolph County, just south of the Jay-Randolph line.
Bricks will be purchased in the names of Abijah Phelps, Michael Counkle, William Cline, George Emery and John Harford.
Site work on Freedom Park, which will be located on the east side of South Meridian Street near the Jay Community Center and East Jay Middle School, is scheduled to begin next week. Continued from page 1
The park will include a fountain surrounded by a plaza of bricks honoring veterans.
The cost of each brick is $100. Students at the two Bloomfield third grade classes, taught by Bonnie Badders and Bonita Frazee, donated a combined total of $400 towards the effort, with the local DAR chapter furnishing the rest.
“We’re just elated ... we didn’t think we had the money (to buy the bricks) until these children came up with the money,” Rita Leggett, Regent (leader) of the local DAR chapter, said this week.
The third graders at Bloomfield, who started with a combined $200 from The Portland Foundation’s Care and Share program, turned that into a little more than $500 by purchasing and re-selling suckers.
In addition to donating $400 to the DAR effort, the third graders also purchased a brick to honor all veterans who have attended Bloomfield Elementary School.
Doug Inman, executive director of the foundation, helped bring the DAR and the Bloomfield students together. He had talked separately to Patricia Beard and Leggett from the DAR and Badders about efforts to buy bricks for Freedom Park.
After receiving a call from Badders proposing the Bloomfield students help out the DAR, Beard said “we were thrilled to death ... I hope this will encourage others to put their relatives’ names on bricks.”
“We planned to buy at least one brick, and when I called Doug Inman ... that’s when he let me know the DAR was interested in buying bricks for the five veterans of the Revolutionary War,” Badders said Friday.
Harford, a seaman who was 14-years-old at the end of the Revolutionary War, is buried in Green Park Cemetery, while Counkle and Phelps are each buried in Daugherty Cemetery which is located west of New Corydon near the intersection of Jay County roads 550 East and 900 North.
Emery was laid to rest in the Loofborrow Cemetery in Adams County, while Cline, who was 106-years-old at the time of his death in 1953, is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, which is on Randolph County road 800 East, just south of the Jay-Randolph line.[[In-content Ad]]
Top Stories
9/11 NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit
Chartwells marketing
September 17, 2024 7:36 a.m.
Events
250 X 250 AD