
Restoring Fallen Stones
Of the two hundred burials in the Routh Pioneer Cemetery, about one hundred are marked. Of those that are marked, only thirty have standing stones. We have begun our efforts to save those stones that have fallen. In the 1990s, in an effort to preserve the stones, the Boy Scouts surrounded many of them with cement as vandalism of the cemetery was a serious issue at the time. In addition to needing to remove this cement, some of the coffins underground have collapsed, leaving h