Wouldn't it just be easier if they were place in the ground more securely than they are...maybe cemented close to the grave stone. Carlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "callard" <callard@surfside.net> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:41 PM Subject: RE: [CIVIL-WAR] Civil War Grave Marker > To BOB & Craig > > MARKERS such as these are for the Grave site and if you go to > cemeteries where there are Civil War Dead you will see other Memorials > like this from the GAR and also the Confederate organization. > > The SELLING of such a MARKER is like stealing from a grave. > That is why there are Laws against removing it from a Grave site and > selling it. There is a location of the grave and The MARKER is to be > returned where it Belongs. > > Is would be to your benefit to see that it is returned to the > Relative who is concerned and placed on the original grave site where it > belongs. > > Richard Callard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JULIAFWOOD@aol.com [mailto:JULIAFWOOD@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:20 PM > To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Civil War Grave Marker > > > I have heard from the persons who are selling the Marker. The email is > below. I responded to them that I do not know what the marker is but it > is they > who called it a Grave Marker. I gave them the email address of the SUV > and told > them to ask if they know what it is and perhaps the SUV will purchase it > from > them to put it in a proper place. ................................. > >Hello. I had a question for you... are you sure this wasn't just > >presented > to the family for them to put it where they wanted? The people we got > it from > said it was to do with their distant relative and that their parents had > been > keeping it in their front yard as a remembrance. Is it possible this > could > be the situation? Thanks. Bob & Craig< > > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Surfside Internet] > > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe > >