RESTORATION OF DAMAGED TOMBSTONES

On the weekend of February 11, 2020, one of our committee members, Fred Smith drove through the cemetery and saw that there was damage to five tombstones/markers.  Our committee alerted the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office and a report was filed.  It appears that the damage was caused by a horse that entered from the front of the Brand Cemetery into the Mount Muncie Cemetery.  We still are seeking any information about who may have done this type of vandalism.

The committee met and hired the Kidwell Granite Works Company that is from Versailles, MO to do the repair work.  Jimmy, Tyler, and Wendell came to assist us.  We are so happy with the results and the information that we learned about tombstone setting, how to get information from a tombstone that has writing that is difficult to read, and how to clean the different types of stones.

Mount Muncie Cemetery Committee members are Bishop William Thompson, chairperson, Fred Smith, vice-chairperson, Alice Elmore, secretary, Joyce Haynes (finance) , Arron Haynes (finance), Linda Smith (finance), Earl Elmore, Reverend Glenn Elmore, Reverend Wilbur Conway, Rowan Haynes, and Ralph Collins.

Here are some pictures of the team doing restoration work today.

                                                              Leveling work

                                                    Angel was cracked and glued to restore.

                                 Jimmy used rubbing paper and a tennis ball to find out writing on tombstone.