Jess Meier, Beloit, caulks a reset tombstone in Shaffer Union Cemetery on Saturday, May 9. She along with Roy Arasmith and Grant Arasmith, Jewell, and Doug Boyles, cemetery sexton, completed three days of work in the cemetery removing brush, resetting, re-caulking and straightening stones. The cemetery is in section 22 of Harrison Township.
Shaffer Union Cemetery, often just called Shaffer Cemetery, is located in Section 22 of Harrison Township. Isaac Shaffer donated the land, part of his homestead, for the cemetery. The cemetery is an old one, with at least three burials in 1873.
Davis, Donahoo, Fringer, Kranatz, Korb, Morris, Paul Roe, Rogers, Shaffer, Shaw, Tegley, Tindall and Williams are but a few of families with multiple members buried in the cemetery.
The cemetery has been getting some much-needed repair work done. Doug Boyles, cemetery sexton, saw the need and arranged for some help.
Roy Arasmith of Jewell has been mowing cemeteries for some years. When you mow you see things – toppled stones, tilting stones, broken stones and ones that just need recaulked. He figured out how to literally "set things right." His grandson Grant Arasmith, also of Jewell, learned by watching and doing.
The two of them, along with Jess Meier of Beloit have worked three days along with Doug Boyles to give the cemetery a much needed "facelift." Brush was torn out, stones picked up and reset, stones straightened, and recaulking stones were just some of the tasks accomplished.
The work was much needed and much appreciated
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