ARNSBERG CEMETERY ASSOCIATION PLANS BOOK

The Arnsberg Cemetery Association met July 29, at the home of Norman and Val Tuschoff. The main item of business was the planning of a book to be published in the year 2000.

The title of the book will be "The Restoration of the Arnsberg Cemetery and Reviving the Memory of the Town of Arnsberg and the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church".

Contents of the book will include: History,organization and progress; newspaper clippings; photographs of families of those buried in the cemetery; "This I Remember" will be quotes from people who were a part of activities of Arnsberg and remembrances of family stories; index to ledgers of the Tacke Store. Mrs. Maxine Tacke recently gave us three. This will be the names of those doing business at the store. There will be a biography of the families buried here, a children's biography and a listing of burials and plats of the cemetery.

An explanation of the book will be included in the yearly newsletter that comes out the first part of May. By the fall of 2000, the information should be as complete as possible.

We lack early information of the Dickmann, Kromann, Puntmann, Neislein, Wilke, Keiser, Rose, Kayser, Bingenheimer, Reinemer, Milster, Sauer, Struwe, Jaeger,Baily, Rhyne, Powell, Thomure, Young, Underwood and Fiesler families buried here. We want to know where all families came from in Germany,if possible.

We also encourage families to look through their old pictures, certificates and valuables and let us know what you have. We need the records of the church. These may be hard to recognize as the church wasn't named at the time it was organized. The deed only calls it the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Apple Creek Twp. By the year 1861, marriage records at the Recorders Office call it St. John's.

There will be a separate biography for our children of today. Anyone can send their ancestry even if you can't donate to the restoration fund. An example: "'Matthew Bollinger, born April 18, 1987, great-great-great-grandson of John and Caroline Kiepe. I own the saddle of their son, Charles Kiepe. It is like the saddles used by the Pony Express. It has a square hole below the saddle horn and the stirrups hang loose on leather straps".

We encourage everyone, young or old, to sit down and write us a long letter. It will be edited to take as little space in the book as possible, yet tell your story. The letters will be kept in our file for future generations to research.

You do not have to have an historical item as Matthew has, your children are our treasure. Contact any member of the committee: Pres., Elroy Kinder; V. Pres. Val Tuschoff; Sec. and Historian, Mary Daume; Treas., Leonard M.-Adams; Trustees, Harold Lowes, Norman Tuschoff, Paul Lowes and Harlan Tuschoff.