Indian Peaks DAR headstone inscription at Lafayette Cemetery

By Kathleen Jefferies

Indian Peaks Daughters of the American Revolution

On Sunday, the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, chapters across the nation will unite in completing service projects of specific interest to their local communities. This historic event demonstrates the impact of DAR community service on local communities and throughout America.

The local Indian Peaks chapter of NSDAR is undertaking two projects involving the Lafayette Cemetery. The Headstone Inscription Project will record the information from the nearly 4,000 headstones and make it available nationwide. In addition, the Find-a-Grave Completion Project will provide photographs of the headstones along with the entrance sign to the cemetery. The resulting work from the Headstone Inscription Project will be published in a hard-copy book and kept at the DAR Library as well as become a fully indexed, digitized work, available through the DAR Seimes Technology Center and online to the public. Making this information available to public sources is a great benefit to citizens across the nation who are researching genealogy

This is an ambitious and genealogically meaningful community service project. Descendants from all over the country, and even the world, will be able to locate their ancestor's headstones containing, in most cases, the birth and death year of the individual and in some instances, marriage date information and military service.

For more information about this project or to participate, contact IndianPeaksRegent@gmail.com.

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote patriotism, preserve American history, and support better education for our nation's children. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 165,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world's largest and most active service organizations. To learn more about the work of today's DAR, visit www.DAR.org. Women interested in joining the Louisville chapter can contact.IndianPeaksRegistrar@gmail.com for more information.

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