Bill wrote: <snip> >My main question/comment regards the part of the inscription on the >Price Hamrick grave marker which says "Son of Moses Richard". How can >the theory, that holds Moses Richard Hamrick to be but a creation of our >cousin S. C. Jones, be reconciled with the words on this grave site? Bill, Without seeing the tombstones, I would only be making a guess. So I have a question for you: how old is the tombstone/grave marker that says "Son of Moses Richard"? The tombstone could have been erected years after the death by a well-meaning genealogist (S. C. Jones Perhaps?). I base this comment on personal experience. Several years ago I was searching for my great great grandfather's grave. All I knew, from my grandmother, was that he was "buried in Texas by Uncle Will." Now, I didn't know if that meant Uncle Will put him in the grave or if his grave was next to Uncle Will's. And Texas is a pretty big place. I thought the surname was spelled FREEMAN, and all I knew was he was called Jim. Not too much to go on. I also knew where in Tennessee his wife, Lizzie, was buried (about a mile from my home). To make a really, really long (but interesting) story short, an internet friend of mine (that I've never met) found the tombstone for me based on one of my wild hunches. And this marvelous gentleman made a rubbing (his first) of the tombstone because it was so beautiful and had so much information on it. The tombstone listed his whole name, Henry James (Jim) Freemon, complete dates of birth and death, and the words, "wife Lizzie, is buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Lawrence County, Tenn." And the grave next to him was that of Will Freemon. A few years later my sister and I were in the Dallas area and decided to find the cemetery for ourselves and make pictures. The town it was near had been wiped out by a tornado and was being rebuilt. When we finally found the cemetery, there was a huge marker (that took us almost an hour to find because it wasn't what I was looking for) - about 5 feet tall - and in 3 inch letters were "H. J. FREEMON - 1844-1914" and at the bottom of the stone were the words, "Erected by W. Freeman" - also in 3 inch letters. Seems the original tombstone had been damaged in the storm and his grandson (who spelled the surname differently - isn't that novel?) decided to put up a new stone instead of repairing the old one. In another case, that of Robert S. HAMRICK, some well-meaning family members erected a "monument" to him. The information on the "monument" is only as accurate as the family members who erected it - some 140 years after his death. Now if the tombstone were erected at the time of death, I'd guess it would be more accurate than if it were erected 100 years later. But I'm definitely only guessing and would love to be proven wrong! (For years I've searched for proof of the existence of Moses Richard Hamrick - even though we can't definitely tie to him either.) Pat motesp@hiwaay.net