This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fh.2ADI/5798 Message Board Post: An AP article about Franklin County Illinois appeared in the Jacksonville (Morgan) IL Journal Courier 19 Mar. 2005. You can probably find a similar article via google. The evening of 16 Mar. or early morning of the 17th, more than thirty headstones had been vandalized at Harrison Cemetery near Buckner. Forty-seven headstones had been damaged at Mitchell Cemetery in Sesser several weeks earlier. The articles said that volunteers had already reinstalled unbroken headstones at Mitchell Cem. "Several Sesser-Valier H.S. students also have decided to get involved and have organized fund-raising activities to defray the costs of repairing the headstones." Perhaps this will be of interest to some readers. I have NO connection with Franklin County. Kathleen (STANFIELD) COOK