The following article about Switzerland County, Indiana appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 27 May 1869 – Page 2, Column 2
See also: Switzerland County Military Records

Decoration of Soldiers Graves.

A meeting was held at the M. E. Chapel last Monday night to make arrangement for decorating the Soldiers’ graves in our Cemetery. The meeting was called to order by Rev. J. K. Pye, when Capt. F. L. Courvoisier was chosen Chairman and J. V. Gilbert Sec’y.

Committees were then selected to make preparations for the occasion, and it was decided that at the ringing of the Methodist Chapel bell, at 2 ½ o’clock, on Saturday next, the citizens participating should assemble at that place and move thence to the Cemetery in procession.

The following committees were appointed:

COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

• Col. Oliver Ormsby.
• R. F. Grisard
• Matthew Worstell
• Theodore Livings
• Maj. Wm. Patton
• Alfred Thiebaud
• Wm. Goldenburg
• Rev. F. Moro.

COMMITTEE ON MARSHALS.

• John F. Doan, Sen.
• F. L. Grisard
• James W. Keith

COMMITTEE ON PROCURING FLOWERS.

• Mrs. James Pleasants
• Mrs. Joseph Webb
• Mrs. U. P. Schenck
• Mrs. F. Dupraz
• Mrs. Jane Morerod
• Mrs. Sallie Hall
• Miss Josephine Gray
• Miss Alice Shaw
• Miss Vivira Price
• Miss Jennie Miller
• Miss Lizzie Rous
• Miss Julia Leclerc
• Miss Mollie Dow
• Miss Lucilla Jagers

COMMITTEE ON SPEAKERS

• Will M. Smith
• Wm. Lewis
• James Thiebaud
• Joseph Webb
• John Schofield

COMMITTEE ON MUSIC.

• Alf. Rous
• Will W. Long
• R. F. Brewington
• Ed. M. Stevens
• Thos. J. Thiebaud