In a message dated 1/23/2011 2:06:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Gloria are you unaware that there are two separate gravestones, one for Samuel and one for Jacob. I have transcribed four sizable cemeteries (in Pennsylvania and Kansas) and have found many inconsistencies in both names and dates when compared to obituaries and family histories. I agree sources including published county histories are not always correct, but just because "it's carved in stone," you can't assume that it is correct either. ----------------------------- Glenn may not see this answer. He subscribed to the List, posted and unsubscribed himself all in a matter of hours. This is the last that I will say on his post as I don't intend to waste any more time on him or this subject. I really have too much of my research yet to post to the List that's new. I will say that Glenn got all of his information for his posts on the subject straight from the Bushong Bulletins. By me pointing out a few errors in research submitted to The Bulletin is not besmirching a good name. To ignore mistakes without correcting them is the epitome of ignorance. Carol did a lot of good work by publishing the Bulletin but many researchers took part in the research of that material used for the Bulletin since she worked a full time job and didn't have time to do a lot of the research. So errors were made. Some were corrected by her and some were not. I too have walked literally hundreds of cemeteries here in Polk County since our IPGS group has been transcribing the tombstones for the past 15 plus years and publishing a series of books on them and once in a great while there may be an error but not many. The errors are usually in the newspaper obits not the tombstones. I stand by my statement and my research. I am not aware that there was any stone in the Grandview Cemetery marking a grave for either Jacob and Eve Bushong until 1981 when money was collected from family members to erect one. Correct me if I am wrong. -------------------------------- >From the 1984 issue of the Bushong Bulletin, Naomi R. White, Editor The Free Press Standard Carrollton, Ohio 5 June 1930 "Samuel Bushong's new marker was erected at the rear of the mausoleum in Grandview cemetery, where lies the humble grave of Samuel Bushong, the only veteran of the Revolutionary War to be interred in the local graveyard. The marker which had been in position since 1829, the year in which Mr. Bushong died, was replaced in 1930 by a new stone, the gift of Will Steen. This monument bears the inscription "Samuel Bushong, Died 1829. Fought under Baron Steuben in the Revolutionary War." The action of time and the elements of the old stone had almost obliterated the letters and Mr. Steen, in order to preserve the memory of this honorable man, transferred the original inscription to a new and permanent marker. Local historians did not record any facts regarding the life of the old soldier and all that is known of him is told on the grave. Baron Steuben was a distinguished Prussian officer who gave his services to the American cause." --------------------------- Blessings to you Glenn. Enough said. Gloria Bushong