Old Walled Cemetery project

St. Boniface Maryhill "Old Walled
Cemetery Project"

Over the past 20 + years I have made it a ritual to spend time at the "Old Walled Cemetery" making repairs and leveling friends and relatives markers.
The last few years have been very tough on the cemetery with a number of the larger monuments becoming unlevel and will soon need to be take one at a time and leveled up, repointed where all of the stone parts meet etc. I have done the mortar work on about 20 stones to replace the cross which had fallen from the top.
This year (2017) about 4 days was spent doing different jobs from replacing crosses to leveling tablet markers.
Around 20 of the tablet markers had to be leveled up which was completed between Nov. 24 and Dec 5 2017 , also I was able to re-set 4 of the stone cross back on top of their monument after a little leveling. There is around 10 more crosses to re-set in the future.
I am presently making a metal holders that will accommodate the small stone markers that used to be attached to about 15 of the iron cross monuments that have fallen off when the bolts and wires holding them in place rusted away. I hope to install these holders spring of 2018
In the near future (Spring of 2018) I hope to arrange for the monument of Erasmus Bitschey to be leveled and the 2 pieces that are presently beside the base reassembled
QR Scan project; I am pleased to say I am now able to create a QR image that can be placed on or near the cemetery monument which will allow a person to simply scan the QR image with their smart phone or tablet and be taken to a web page that can contain everything from history of the person, pictures and even video if it is available. This will now allow for a Cemetery Tour, or simply make the visit to the cemetery more interesting and most important highlight the memory of the person you are visiting, Each and every stone you see around you has a story to tell. Go ahead and give it a try on these QR scans. Ron Schmuck

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If you need help to restore your family or friends marker I am only two pleased to assist in any way I can. There are several excellent books available on the internet on how to "Correctly" restore and maintain cemetery monuments and a coarse is offered on restoration and care of monuments etc.

*Also if you want to make a Family History web site like this one (which is on the web for FREE), just let me know.
* Question on restoration are welcome. and soon a store so you can purchase the hard to find "Correct" restoration items. (See Restoration supplies under "More" on home page/
*Cemetary map and list of Schmuck graves at the bottom of page.pictures.
*ManyTHANKS to Betty Brohman & Susan Motz for spending many hours cleaning the stones and to
Diane Strickler who collected the information from the hundreds of stones for future generations.

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Maryhill "Old walled Cemetery Restoration Project pictures;
All of these pictures were taken at the "Old walled cemetery, Maryhill, some projects take considerable time so if you see pictures further down in the album of the same stone this simply means the project was stopped until the stone dried from laying flat on the ground for years or for restoration to cure etc. Restoration supplies are for sale in our "Restoration supplyStore"

Aug 23 2018 I had noticed a number of monuments were leaning over from the winter frost so had put 2x4 planks behind them so they would not fall over until I had time and the weather was right to do the repairs. The following pictures shows the straightening of Michel Scherrer's monument as well as the instillation of aluminum metal frames I made last winter to hold the many stone name markers that have fallen off of the metal cross grave markers. Ron Schmuck