THE FOLLOWING IS A FOUNTAIN COUNTY CEMETERY WALK RELEASE
The seventh annual “Fountain County’s Not So Finest” Cemetery Walk is scheduled for Saturday night, September 23rd at the Prescott Cemetery. The hours are 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with the last walk scheduled to begin at 9:30 pm.
The first tour is set aside for those who want to ride their golf carts. Reservations are needed for that tour by calling 765-793-4123. For the other tours, tickets will be available the evening of the event.
Event organizer Kim Martin said, “This is our seventh year, and each time we focus on different individuals and/or families whose members have met a strange or eerie demise. It’s held at Covington’s Prescott Cemetery across from the Trojan Complex. Parking is free across the road at the Complex. Eight new true stories about local gruesome deaths from throughout Fountain County are featured. It’s a little bit scary, and along the way and you’ll learn some little- known history.”
Fourteen actors from Covington and Danville portray characters including former Fountain County Judge Joseph Ristine and his wife Sarah; a local mother and daughter Blanche and Edith Young; an Irish Immigrant couple Thomas and Catharine Quirk; attorney Hiram Stillwell and his wife Clara; U.S. Treasurer Enos Nebeker and his wife and aunt; early parachuter Bobbie Owen; and local resident Cora Wiles Foster.
The event is sponsored by the Fountain County Genealogy Society and is a fundraiser for the Genealogy Library in Veedersburg.
