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    1. [BSChat] TOMBSTONES
    2. JACK CHILDERS
    3. If you see someone with a tombstone don't automatically think they have stolen it from somewhere. If you were to come into my house today you will find a marble tombstone, complete with inscriptions. The tombstone is nothing, it was a mistake. I bought that slab of marble to tool leather on. Granite and marble are ideal for tooling leather, no other stone gives you that burnished look to tooled leather. I went to a monument company and bought it. It was a stone they had made for a customer who either didn't want the finished product, or there was a mistake in the lettering. Monument companies quite often sell their mistakes to people who want a tombstone sized piece of marble, or granite, for whatever purpose. Its not as though a tombstone engraving mistake can be erased and done over. Jack Childers in OKC International Society of BlackSheep Genealogists http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/childers/html/surnames.htm "I've traveled a long way and some of the roads were not paved" Jaxone1234@msn.com

    04/29/2002 05:11:16