German Township Trustee Jacob Stubbs, along with members of the Germantown Cemetery Board, have secured donations to purchase an American Liberty Elm tree that will be planted at the entrance of Germantown Cemetery.

In the April Trustees meeting, Stubbs said the tree is set to arrive as early as this week.

According to an update by Stubbs at the meeting, the 35- foot American Liberty Elm coming from New England is a descendant of a 1770s elm and dates back historically to where the Sons of Liberty would meet during the American Revolution. While many elms have been wiped out, this tree is to be disease resistant.

Stubbs said the tree will be planted at the Germantown Union Cemetery entrance. “We've picked a spot where the driveway splits and comes to a point. The rock there that says Germantown Union Cemetery will be moving closer to the road and the tree will be going in that point there. So, it's a focal point.”

“I just wanted to thank the Lions Club and the Dupps company for covering the expenses of this project,” Stubbs noted.

Stubbs also said that the current flagpole at the entrance would be removed due to damage, since there is a nicer flagpole within the cemetery.

In other cemetery tree news, German Township Trustees also shared that replacements have arrived for bicentennial tree markers from 20 years ago that identified trees donated for loved ones.

Stubbs said in the April Trustee meeting, “We've started a project to go back and make sure all the trees that people have purchased over the years in memory of a loved one are marked. We have all of the memorials ordered and in, and now it's just getting the hangers and getting them out to the places they belong, because we want people to have the recognition for donating these trees in the past, and then hopefully people will see these and maybe want to donate trees to the cemetery in the future.”

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