Decatur Daily Democrat:
It was a three-mile journey that took nearly three years to complete, but the remains of turn-of-the-century Berne residents were laid to rest for a second time Wednesday at M.R.E. Cemetery west of Berne.
Cemetery officials and a handful of interested onlookers joined with representatives from the Indianapolis-based AMEC Earth & Environmental archaeology firm to re-inter human remains and burial artifacts excavated in 2009 and 2010 from the long-abandoned Mennonite Church Cemetery in Berne.
The former cemetery was located primarily on the northeast corner of what today is the intersection of U.S. 27 and State Route 218. The decision to excavate the site was made in conjunction with an Indiana Department of Transportation project to widen the intersection there. AMEC was contracted by state transportation officials to delicately identify and remove the any human remains and burial artifacts from the former cemetery site.
It was a three-mile journey that took nearly three years to complete, but the remains of turn-of-the-century Berne residents were laid to rest for a second time Wednesday at M.R.E. Cemetery west of Berne.
Cemetery officials and a handful of interested onlookers joined with representatives from the Indianapolis-based AMEC Earth & Environmental archaeology firm to re-inter human remains and burial artifacts excavated in 2009 and 2010 from the long-abandoned Mennonite Church Cemetery in Berne.
The former cemetery was located primarily on the northeast corner of what today is the intersection of U.S. 27 and State Route 218. The decision to excavate the site was made in conjunction with an Indiana Department of Transportation project to widen the intersection there. AMEC was contracted by state transportation officials to delicately identify and remove the any human remains and burial artifacts from the former cemetery site.
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