Indiana Stone Carver Lewis Baker

This is a really cool grave marker and so is the "Ballad of Lewis Baker."

Janet S Endris

April 15 at 2:33pm

This coming Friday I will be taking the 7th grade students of the Lawrence County, Indiana Shawswick School through the Green Hill Cemetery. It is an annual field trip event. Their favorite grave marker is always that of stone carver Lewis Baker.This link is to the "Ballad" written in his honor: Take a minute to listen to it http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=395734&songID=3139373

Ballad of Lewis Baker 

Lyrics: Tim Brown. Music: Graham Snow 

Vocal, guitars and programming: Graham Snow 

In the early nineteen hundreds down Lawrence County way 

Working in the quarries was how you earned your pay 

Lewis Baker was a carver and a good one so it’s told 

The stress of carving took him when he was twenty one years old 

Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home 

And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone 

It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame 

For the monument in Bedford, that bears young Baker’s name 

The other carvers liked him, and mourned that he was gone 

They took the block of limestone that he’d been working on 

They carved a fitting tribute, so we’d remember him 

A copy of his workbench, just the way that it had been 

His blueprints and carving tools the way he’d left them there 

Even little mounds of dust, reproduced with loving care 

From far and wide, people come, to see this work of art 

And remember Lewis Baker, a man of noble heart 

Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home 

And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone 

It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame 

For the monumental tombstone, that bears young Baker’s name 

At night in Greenhill Cemetary, when a chill is in the air 

You might see a ghostly figure, standing near his workbench there 

Lewis Baker was a carver and a good one so it’s told 

The stress of carving took him when he was twenty one years old 

Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home 

And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone 

It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame 

For the monumental tombstone, that bears young Baker’s name 

For the monument in Bedford, that bears young Baker’s name

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=395734&songID=3139373

65th. Wedding Anniversary

Congrats to TSGS Members...

        Jim & Mary Lou Bevers!!!

[Evansville Courier & Press 02/16/2014, Page D06]

Jim & Mary Lou

are Charter Members

of the Tri-State Genealogical Society

Mary Lou has served in many different offices and committees including the Annual TSGS Seminars Chairperson.  She has served on the society's Board of Directors for many years.  Mary Lou has presented numerous programs and workshops... always emphasizing the importance of citing sources for your family history.  She has contributed significant articles to the Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and she has been very active for many years with the Indiana Historical & Genealogical Society.

Jim has always helped with the TSGS events with May Lou helping everyone become a better family historian.  Over my 35 years involvement with TSGS, I believe that Mary Lou has helped me the most of any other TSGS member!  For several years Mary Lou helped judge the Vanderburgh County 4-H Fair notebook exhibits.

Anyone making it to their 50th. wedding anniversary has a lot to celebrate, but this couple has reached 65 years of marriage... that is a major achievement!  TSGS is very happy for the two of you and we wish you a very special anniversary celebration!