Jane, What an interesting day you have planned! We hope it is successful. We find it to be intriguing. It reminds us of the cognac and red roses mysteriously left each year on Edgar Allen Poe's grave. For those who aren't familiar with this see: http://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/10-16-97/Features/2.html All the best. George and Jo Ann Nuetzel Parkville, MD. Jane Thursby wrote: > I thought I would tell all the Baltimore people what I am up to tomorrow > (Palm Sunday) in case you want to join me in my adventure. > > Two years ago in May after looking for many years, I finally found my > husband’ 2nd great-grandparents gravesite. They are in New Cathedral in > Baltimore. I rushed over to take pictures of the graves and it was only > when I got home and downloaded the pictures from my camera that I noticed > that there were flowers in the urn, relatively new ones too. In my > excitement of finding the Fischer plot, I hadn’t noticed. I couldn’t call > the cemetery back because it was Saturday afternoon and had to wait until > Monday only to find out they had no contact except for the woman who died in > the 1970’s. > > I checked all my findings and no descendent said they had left them. I > searched for new unknown descendents but none were to be found. Everyone > was dead or had died childless as far as I could determine. > > So—I went back to the cemetery with a plastic cover note. Almost a year > went by and nothing so last Good Friday I went back. I made sure that I > took another note in case the first was gone. As I walked up to the > tombstone, I noticed the note was gone. I leaned over to replace the note > when what did I notice but palms in with new flowers. The palms from Palm > Sunday! The first year I had thought the flowers were from Mother’s day but > I now realize they were Palm Sunday. > > I had missed them by 5 days! > > So tomorrow, I am going out to New Cathedral after dropping Chip at church > and waiting. I will be getting there around 10:30 am and waiting. I will > be taking a book, some work and my needlepoint project and I am waiting. I > hope I am not to late in the morning but I will be able to tell that because > today I went by after the MGS luncheon and put another note out there. IN > THE RAIN > > The flowers had been changed to a Christmas poinsettia and had been duct > taped to the urn to hold it in place. SOMEBODY is coming out there several > times a year. I wonder if my note is missing by the time they are getting > there? > > Just as a precaution—I removed the flower and the dust tape and replaced it > with the note rubber banded in place. > > Tomorrow I am ready. Please show up so I can find out who you are. Please > if you come Monday or Tuesday, however—take my note and call or write or > email..PLEASE! > > Jane Thursby > >From England to Maryland by the early 1700's and still Maryland. > Researching: > Thursby, Stinchecum, Seward, Clag(g)ett, McNamara, Barnes, Muckelroy, > Watkins, Kennard, Fallin, Snyder, Griffin, Benson, Cullison, Shipley, Beall, > White, Wheatly, Mullineaux, Lee, Norris, Waugh, Oldner, Davis, Sasscer, > Fell, Keith, Benton, Hitchcock, Clark, Moxley, Norwood, Lewis, Tydings, > Lamb, Gassaway, Holland, Musgrove > Also through George Schaffer (Chip): > Schaffer, Appel, Dinsmore, Fischer, Yeagle, Suman, Soellner, Franz, Baker, > Albert, Miller, Buzzard, Kitzmiller, Loeb, Stougel, Rohr, Turner, Wilson, > Schichadanz > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > This list is for Genealogical Only, > Join us at [email protected] for discussions on > culture and heritage in the Baltimore area

Visited Fermanagh Ireland, in1996, found ancestors grave in Ballyshannon with 1/4 of tombstone's letters filled in with plastic to preserve them. Went back in 2002, all were filled in. Still looking for that Living relative . Bud Flanagan, in Arizona