When I lived in the country, I was building a rock garden and "raided" the property next door that had long been abandoned. There were rocks all over that place, overgrown with weeds. Much later, I turned over one of the stones I took and saw a kind of inscription - the name of a pet roughly chiseled into the stone. I felt terrible! I would have returned it, but couldn't remember where that particular stone had been. I bet genealogists are a whole lot more sensitive to cemeteries and stone markers than other people, and a whole lot more respectful. Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: <ScismGenie@aol.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Found markers > In a message dated 4/29/2002 9:12:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > jaxone1234@msn.com writes: > > > > 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. > > True, but the statement was that she "found" them, > > I "find them all the time, sometimes as a single gravesite on a farm. > > Sometimes as a stepping stone in front of the farm house, because someone > "found" it first and needed a stepping stone. > > Sometimes they are "found" dumped by the side of a road, and the local > archivist has it, trying to find the proper place. > > As far as "found" markers you want to return , think of this some cemeteries > REQUIRE any marker above ground be removed to facilitate grass mowing. > Sometimes these are replaced by relatives and the old one is taken home by > someone, or discarded. > > Sure I too would try to find out the story on it, but don't always expect to > find what you think initially is true. > > > Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) > ~~ > Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site > Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site > manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: > B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n > d i c o t t, > S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. > Nv.) > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Creative use of your delete key is encouraged. If you disagree with the subject, CHANGE the subject. > > ============================== > 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 >