*Note - For clarification, Christian and his wife, Susanna, are buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery in Ladoga, Montgomery Co., IN. There are no headstones in that cemetery. The headstones are now located in the Harshbarger section of the cemetery at Lake Fork Church in Atwood, IL.
Excerpt from an article published in The Bement Record, Bement, IL 24 Mar 1983 regarding the headstones. This is also documented in the history of Christian Harshbarger.
It all started when Christian Hirschberger came from Rhineland, Epstein, Germany to Philadelphia in September 1749. He wanted to escape conscription into the Kaiser's Army. (This has not been able to be verified, however)
His son, Christian II, the center of this story, was born in Virginia in 1776, came with his family to Champaign County, Ohio. With their seven children they finally settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. Christian II married Susan Boraker and she and her husband were buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery, Montgomery Co., Ind. This cemetery was located on a high knoll surrounded by swamp and woodland. Carrie Livengood and son, Tom, and Arthur Harshbarger and daughter, Ruth, stopped at this cemetery several times as they visited some of the Indiana relatives.
The last time that Tom was there he found the cemetery in utter ruin - stones broken and some missing. A farmer was discing nearby and Tom spoke to him about it. As they visited Tom observed the weights on the disc and upon closer observation discovered they were the broken limestone markers of Christian II and Susan. They brought them home, this fact is recorded in the County Courthouse in Indiana, thinking to place them near the graves of two of his sons - Daniel and Samuel. This was never accomplished mainly due to the fact that he did not know how to reconstruct them.
After Tom's death the broken pieces were found and now, at last, they have been skillfully repaired and erected "in Memoriam" in the Harshbarger Preserve section of the Lake Fork Cemetery in Atwood, IL.
Excerpt from an article published in The Bement Record, Bement, IL 24 Mar 1983 regarding the headstones. This is also documented in the history of Christian Harshbarger.
It all started when Christian Hirschberger came from Rhineland, Epstein, Germany to Philadelphia in September 1749. He wanted to escape conscription into the Kaiser's Army. (This has not been able to be verified, however)
His son, Christian II, the center of this story, was born in Virginia in 1776, came with his family to Champaign County, Ohio. With their seven children they finally settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. Christian II married Susan Boraker and she and her husband were buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery, Montgomery Co., Ind. This cemetery was located on a high knoll surrounded by swamp and woodland. Carrie Livengood and son, Tom, and Arthur Harshbarger and daughter, Ruth, stopped at this cemetery several times as they visited some of the Indiana relatives.
The last time that Tom was there he found the cemetery in utter ruin - stones broken and some missing. A farmer was discing nearby and Tom spoke to him about it. As they visited Tom observed the weights on the disc and upon closer observation discovered they were the broken limestone markers of Christian II and Susan. They brought them home, this fact is recorded in the County Courthouse in Indiana, thinking to place them near the graves of two of his sons - Daniel and Samuel. This was never accomplished mainly due to the fact that he did not know how to reconstruct them.
After Tom's death the broken pieces were found and now, at last, they have been skillfully repaired and erected "in Memoriam" in the Harshbarger Preserve section of the Lake Fork Cemetery in Atwood, IL.
*Note - For clarification, Christian and his wife, Susanna, are buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery in Ladoga, Montgomery Co., IN. There are no headstones in that cemetery. The headstones are now located in the Harshbarger section of the cemetery at Lake Fork Church in Atwood, IL.
Excerpt from an article published in The Bement Record, Bement, IL 24 Mar 1983 regarding the headstones. This is also documented in the history of Christian Harshbarger.
It all started when Christian Hirschberger came from Rhineland, Epstein, Germany to Philadelphia in September 1749. He wanted to escape conscription into the Kaiser's Army. (This has not been able to be verified, however)
His son, Christian II, the center of this story, was born in Virginia in 1776, came with his family to Champaign County, Ohio. With their seven children they finally settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. Christian II married Susan Boraker and she and her husband were buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery, Montgomery Co., Ind. This cemetery was located on a high knoll surrounded by swamp and woodland. Carrie Livengood and son, Tom, and Arthur Harshbarger and daughter, Ruth, stopped at this cemetery several times as they visited some of the Indiana relatives.
The last time that Tom was there he found the cemetery in utter ruin - stones broken and some missing. A farmer was discing nearby and Tom spoke to him about it. As they visited Tom observed the weights on the disc and upon closer observation discovered they were the broken limestone markers of Christian II and Susan. They brought them home, this fact is recorded in the County Courthouse in Indiana, thinking to place them near the graves of two of his sons - Daniel and Samuel. This was never accomplished mainly due to the fact that he did not know how to reconstruct them.
After Tom's death the broken pieces were found and now, at last, they have been skillfully repaired and erected "in Memoriam" in the Harshbarger Preserve section of the Lake Fork Cemetery in Atwood, IL.
Excerpt from an article published in The Bement Record, Bement, IL 24 Mar 1983 regarding the headstones. This is also documented in the history of Christian Harshbarger.
It all started when Christian Hirschberger came from Rhineland, Epstein, Germany to Philadelphia in September 1749. He wanted to escape conscription into the Kaiser's Army. (This has not been able to be verified, however)
His son, Christian II, the center of this story, was born in Virginia in 1776, came with his family to Champaign County, Ohio. With their seven children they finally settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. Christian II married Susan Boraker and she and her husband were buried in the Harshbarger Cemetery, Montgomery Co., Ind. This cemetery was located on a high knoll surrounded by swamp and woodland. Carrie Livengood and son, Tom, and Arthur Harshbarger and daughter, Ruth, stopped at this cemetery several times as they visited some of the Indiana relatives.
The last time that Tom was there he found the cemetery in utter ruin - stones broken and some missing. A farmer was discing nearby and Tom spoke to him about it. As they visited Tom observed the weights on the disc and upon closer observation discovered they were the broken limestone markers of Christian II and Susan. They brought them home, this fact is recorded in the County Courthouse in Indiana, thinking to place them near the graves of two of his sons - Daniel and Samuel. This was never accomplished mainly due to the fact that he did not know how to reconstruct them.
After Tom's death the broken pieces were found and now, at last, they have been skillfully repaired and erected "in Memoriam" in the Harshbarger Preserve section of the Lake Fork Cemetery in Atwood, IL.
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