Hi Ruth I assume you have attached an image to your post? If so rootsweb lists do not accept attachments, so you would need to post it somewhere and send a link to it in another post However, there might be many reasons for no surviving stone, there may have been one and it was damaged, so was removed, there is much of this happening all over due to health and safety and the fear of litigation Or they didn't want one, or they wanted one but it was never enacted by the person charged with doing it, or the money ran out before it was ordered/paid for/erected And no doubt several other reasons Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 29/04/2016 19:15, ruth.enns via wrote: > Pray tell me: > > WHY would a person have such a GRAND FUNERAL & no stone in Sight hill > Cemetery researched out by me at Mitchell Library & I wend there > personally to view GRASS only! > > Ruth Enns

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for lairs to be owned by undertakers, and those being buried were only provided with one space. This happened at Glasgow Cathedral burial ground. I suppose the prestige gained by being buried at the cathedral exceeded the disadvantage of being under a blank stone, laid horizontally over the lair. As Nivard says, there could be several reasons for there not being a memorial.The lair records should give more information. Iain McKenzie On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Nivard Ovington via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Ruth > > I assume you have attached an image to your post? > > If so rootsweb lists do not accept attachments, so you would need to > post it somewhere and send a link to it in another post > > However, there might be many reasons for no surviving stone, there may > have been one and it was damaged, so was removed, there is much of this > happening all over due to health and safety and the fear of litigation > > Or they didn't want one, or they wanted one but it was never enacted by > the person charged with doing it, or the money ran out before it was > ordered/paid for/erected > > And no doubt several other reasons > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 29/04/2016 19:15, ruth.enns via wrote: > > Pray tell me: > > > > WHY would a person have such a GRAND FUNERAL & no stone in Sight hill > > Cemetery researched out by me at Mitchell Library & I wend there > > personally to view GRASS only! > > > > Ruth Enns > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on > the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >