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Lewis Dobbins advised Oakwood Cemetery Board of Regents Thursday about the cemetery tours planned by Warsaw's Sesquicentennial Committee, saying he was asked to point out the oldest graves to committee members recently.
Dobbins, who sits on the board and works at the cemetery, said plans are for people to portray the deceased during the tours, scheduled for June 12.
The oldest burial sites are in the northwest corner of the cemetery.
Sexton David Shaw said barbed wire has been strung along the chain-link fence from Sheridan Street and along the northern border almost to the maintenance shop.
The barbed wire is designed to keep people from breaking down the fence to enter cemetery grounds. It also is hoped deer will be dissuaded from entering the property.
He said the proposal to purchase a little more than three acres of Parson property has been sent to the Parsons for approval. The addition of the land will extend cemetery boundaries to the southeast.
Warsaw city council representative Bob Morrison asked about the possibility of another Legion Circle.
Shaw said the cemetery office has no records of who is buried in the north Legion Circle because plots there are sold to people by Mike Davis of American Legion John C. Peterson Post 49, but it is filling up.
The Legion Circle ground was sold in 1978 for $3,750.
A second area could be created south of the cremation garden, Shaw said. Setting aside and the sale of the ground would have to be approved by the city council.
The board approved 14 deeds and set the next meeting for April 1.
Board of regents members are Lewis Dobbins, Ellen Hoffer and Warren Tatter. Bob Sandy was absent.
