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.)