Thank you for your reply....Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] graves in Germany > I don't think there are any bones left by then. I am not sure they embalm as > would be hurtful to the ecology. I know they are wrapped in white and yes > they are turned. They are not always turned in the smaller villages, but > every place I went that was the case. I wrote an article on burial practices > around the world last fall and got in trouble for not sticking to genealogy, > but I felt that it would help you do your research as was quite a shock to be > so excited to get to Germany expecting 200 years of tombstones and finding no > old ones. Jerilyn > > Jerilyn Lappin Koskan > Cook Co., Illinois > [email protected] > FTM user > > BREWER-Daniel Belmont, OH, Northumberland, Indiana and Jefferson, PA > DAVIS/DAVIDSON-Marium/Mary b1803 Bucks, PA Mother Rachel Greene > DUSATKO-Barbara, Anton late 1800s Butler, NE > DYE-William, David, Daniel in Monroe, OH early 1800s. > FISHER-Joseph, b abt 1805 OH, last Morgan, OH 1850. Wife Judith Lappin. > Children John, Knight, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, Rachel, Ruth > GRAY-Ogden b 1850 Morgan, OH, d Fulton, IL. Children - Ogden, Lafayette, > Mary A., Cornelius, Elizabeth, Rachel > GREENE-Rachel, b abt 1770, Bucks, PA > HANNA-Archibald, d 1793 Westmoreland, PA Children Hugh, William, Hannah, Mary > (wed Robert Williams) > KIRK-Elizabeth, Quaker, daughter Joseph Kirk/Judith Knight, wed Robert Lappin > abt 1790. Chester & Fayette, PA Belmont, OH > KOSKAN-Vaclav, b 1850s Czechoslovakia d Butler, NE > LAPPIN-PA and OH late 1700s/1800s > LEAK/LEEK-MD & Eastern, OH in late 1700s and 1800s > MITCHELL-Thomas Mitchell, b 1770s Greene, PA -d Monroe, OH. Daughter Maria > wed William Dye. > > MONROE-Nicholas Monroe, b PA, died Belmont, OH early 1850s. Children Curtis, > William, John, Samuel, Mary (Hendershot), Eleanor (Maring), Rebecca (Murphy), > Miller, George, Richard. > MONTGOMERY-Daniel, d 1842 Vinton, OH Family to Wayne, IL Wife Alice Lappin, > Children William, Mariah, John, Elizabeth, Rachel, Letticia, Ruth, Euphemia > OATES-Sarah Elizabeth born Lewis, WV, adopted Samuel McCluster - to Decatur, > KS Parents supposedly Elizabeth Puffenbarger/Benjamin Oates > SLUSHER-Frederick, b PA, lived Monroe, OH, d Wayne, IL > SMITH-Aaron 1755/Anna Foster Bucks, PA Children John, Amos, Hannah, Samuel, > Charles, Mary > STARBUCKS-John and Ann Lappin of Belmont, OH > STARKEY - b 1810 PA, wed Belmont, OH > TODD - Wm. & Rachel Lappin, d late 1800s Morgan, OH > WADSWORTH-Alcinda, Martha, Wm., Rachel, Emily, Ruth b Belmont, OH >