ATTICA, Ind. —
The recovery and restoration of Ruppert Cemetery in Logan Township has been completed.
The Fountain County Cemetery Commission will rededicate the cemetery at 2 p.m. EDT Saturday.
“It will be a brief ceremony,” said Ed Moyer, a member of the cemetery commission. “The Army Reserve from Lafayette will present the flag, fold it and present it to the Attica mayor. The American Legion Post 288 (of Veedersburg) will present a 21-gun salute.”
Fountain County pioneers and veterans will be honored.
Moyer said the cemetery was overgrown in prairie grass for 25 years, and “no trespassing” signs were posted by the state.
“We thought it needed to be reclaimed,” Moyer said.
Records indicate that the cemetery’s first burial was in 1831 and the last in 1905.
“It had been there a long time,” Moyer said.
Attica Mayor Bob Shepherd spearheaded the efforts of a number of volunteers.
“We raked it and burned it off twice and then we started mowing it,” Shepherd said.
Shepherd used a list the Daughters of the American Revolution had compiled in 1930.
“We found all of the tombstones but four,” he said. He estimated 120 tombstones in the cemetery.
Shepherd said Nathan Maus provided equipment to help the volunteers remount several of the obelisk tombstones.
“It really looks nice,” he said. “We got a lot of help from a lot of people.”
IF YOU GO
Ruppert Cemetery is at 4024 N. Ruppert Road. Go east of Attica on Indiana Route 28 to Ruppert Road and then south to the cemetery.
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