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    1. Re: [AROUACHI] Finding a home for some tombstones - We need your help!
    2. Debbra Szymanski
    3. We're going to check into this possibility. None of these people were found on the Arkansas death index. Debbra ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy Cox <BCOX1@kscable.com> To: <AROUACHI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [AROUACHI] Finding a home for some tombstones - We need your help! > We had something similar to this. Turned out to be sample tombstones used > by the monument company. Names were made up. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbra Szymanski" <deb@arkansas.net> > To: <AROUACHI-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:41 PM > Subject: [AROUACHI] Finding a home for some tombstones - We need your help! > > > > A few years ago when our local volunteer fire department was putting on a > Haunted House fundraiser some REAL tombstones were donated and placed in the > fake graveyard behind the new municipal building. Today those tombstones > were rediscovered by Jeanette's son, Tim. We have gone through all of the > old and new cemetery records and none of these markers are listed. If I > remember correctly, the tombstones were being used as foundation blocks for > an old house on Ouachita 25 not far from the Lester community. If anyone > can help us get these markers back to the orginal cemetery, we would greatly > appreciate it. These are the inscriptions from three markers (from Ouachita > county): > > > > Sales, Infant 14 Oct 1941 - 15 Oct 1941 Son/Mr. & Mrs. Brombiek Sales > > White, T. D. 1881 - 1934 > > Scott, Frank died 9 Dec 1955 > > > > Thanks, > > Jeanette Ponder and Debbra Szymanski > > Arkansas Coordinators/State Coordinator > > USGenExchange > > > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

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