Was there a person with that name? I can't find anyone in Indiana in a census who might apply. Since the stone fragments suggest a stone bigger than a child's stone, it seems that we should find this person on census.... if they died 1850 or later. Sharon -------------- Original message -------------- From: Jeff Scism <Jeff@ibssg.org> > Donahue J. Stacker? > > s.m.mills@comcast.net wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Amy Terry and I worked at the Redenbaugh Cemetery today. I brought along two > granddaughters, and one of them sorted through a small pile of tombstone bits > that appeared mysteriously under a tree last year. We had previously noticed a > fragment that said " J Stacker", and I had queried this list for a possible > person. Today Autumn noted that another fragment which said "..hue" joined up > with "J Stacker" on the left side. This was confirmed by the fact that BO on > the left side joined up with RN on the right side. So Autumn found that > "...hue J Stacker" is a person who may have been buried in the Redenbaugh > Cemetery. We got no further information. > > > > Autumn found another couple of pieces that match up, but the only useful bit > we got was the date of 1829. I don't have anyone born that date other than Wm > H Redenbaugh, buried at Harshbarger Cemetery in 1902. Of course it may be > someone with a name other than Redenbaugh. This is a stone with very old > script, which I would place before 1870 at the latest. > > > > Regarding Amy's restoration, she epoxied and filled voids to complete two > stones and part of another. There are 4 more tombstones still needing work, and > we will wait till next year to do those. Since the wrong epoxy was used to > originally rejoin the stones, there will probably be stones coming apart till > all those old seams are scraped clean and rejoined. > > > > Sharon Mills > > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG > > > > "In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory > of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general > government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter > cannot exist without them." > > -- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833) > > Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 191. > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message