Thanks for the reply. The problem is, my family was very poor, so that is why I wonder about the stone. It looks expensive and I know they did not have any money! Rob "R Ouimet" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > "Rob Flanagan Stieglitz" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de > news:[email protected] > > http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/5/hs517a.htm > > > > My GG Father's headstone at Calvary in Queens, NY looks like the tall > > gray stones in the picture in the above link. > > He died in 1880 and I am trying to determine if it was placed after > > his death or is the stone too new and was erected years after his > > burial. Are those stones from the 1880s or some time after? > > Bonsoir, > > I have seen stones in the Montréal Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery for the same > period, but only for a group of firemen or very rich persons. > > R. Ouimet

The siblings of your grandfather (the children of the great grandfather) may have chipped together to pay for a stone at a later date. This happened with my great grandfather Reid. He died in 1915, his first wife died in 1880 and his second in 1893. The stone for him and his second wife was erected in 1927, according to my aunt. Diane Rob Flanagan Stieglitz wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. The problem is, my family was very poor, so > that is why I wonder about the stone. It looks expensive and I know > they did not have any money! > > Rob > > "R Ouimet" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > > "Rob Flanagan Stieglitz" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de > > news:[email protected] > > > http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/5/hs517a.htm > > > > > > My GG Father's headstone at Calvary in Queens, NY looks like the tall > > > gray stones in the picture in the above link. > > > He died in 1880 and I am trying to determine if it was placed after > > > his death or is the stone too new and was erected years after his > > > burial. Are those stones from the 1880s or some time after? > > > > Bonsoir, > > > > I have seen stones in the Montréal Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery for the same > > period, but only for a group of firemen or very rich persons. > > > > R. Ouimet -- "The Universe began not with a bang, but a smile" See my web page at http://www3.sympatico.ca/dr.reid/