hello, debbie. i also love making the cemetery trips. my trips up to maine have always been fruitful with interesting sayings etc (thought some are so old, and worn, i have no luck at all).... but about washington. i'll keep an eye out. i'll ask at the records, if anyone with that name is buried there. i dont recalle seeing and Thayers in Nahnt, but i'm pretty sure i've seen some on the roads towards my grammys grave in lynn. it s a HUGE cemetery, so i'm sure there are a number of them... my former ebst friends last name was actually Thayer, so when i saw it on graves, it stuck in my memory. i'm going to attempt to make a trip out to the archives, so i could alwayscheck to see if a death record exists there.... i thinki may have had a few in Rhode Island, but they were likely 1700s and i'm not sure if i know for sure where they died. ... anyways, if you dont hear fromme within a week or so, then emai lme and remind me. i have an awful memory lately. -- -Allyssa- http://www.branchesandleaves.tk --Undocumented genealogy is mythology. --Whoever said "Seek and ye shall find" was not a genealogist --I'm not stuck.......I'm ancestrally challenged --I'm stuck in my family tree.....and I can't get down! --To a genealogist, EVERYTHING is relative! . > From: Annakari713@cs.com > To: MA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <22EBCDA5.510C372B.35C6BE50@cs.com> > Subject: RE: [MA-CEM] anyone need pix/lookups for Nahant/Lynn area? i'm > volunteering... > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Hi, my name is Debbie Thayer and I have been doing the cemetery hunting for two > years now. Wear good hiking shoes, tuck your (long) pants into your socks, use > bug spray, and be ready to learn a lot. Headstones are often inscribed with > great snips of history, personal and general. It is one of my favorite things > to do. I have designated myself the Rhode Island representative of the Thayer > Families Association (TFA we have a website)Headstone Project. I am trying to > get a picture of every Thayer buried in RI. I have found about 147 of the 310 > listed in the Historical society and some who are not listed. The one I would > really like to find is my 3xGreat Grandfather, Washington Thayer b.7/5/1805 d > after 1830. He was the son of William Thayer and Polly Adams Thayer. I am > wondering if he left RI (because I know his wife remarried) and went back to MA. > There is a Washington Thayer buried in MA who is not my 3xGreat Grandfather. > BUT.....if, in your travels, you come accro! > ss MY Washington I would greatly like to know where you found him so I can go > there and give him the devil for dropping off the face of the RI earth. No, > relly, I want to take a picture of his headstone. In turn I will look for > anyone you want who may be buried in RI. Thanks, Debbie > edwardsbatchelder@attbi.com wrote: > >i'l be making my first major cemetery trip of the season within the next > >couple weeks. i'll gladly help out if anyone needs anyting from the cems i'll > >be visiting. if anyone needs any photos/info for anyone buried in Nahant, or > >Lynn, MA, just email me your request, andi'll be glad to help. :) i may be > >willing to visit other neighboring cemeteries if it's convenient for me, so > >don't hestistate to ask. > :)>>-->-Allyssa->http://www.branchesandleaves.tk>>--Undocumented genealogy is > >mythology. >--Whoever said "Seek and ye shall >find" was not a genealogist > >--I'm not stuck.......I'm >ancestrally challenged >--I'm stuck in my family > >tree.....and I can't get down! >--To a genealogist, EVERYTHING is >relative! > >>>==== MA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ====>If you wish to unsubscribe from the > Massachusetts Cemetery list, send only the word>UNSUBSCRIBE to > MA-CEMETERIES-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List>to > MA-CEMETERIES-d-request@rootsweb.com>>====================! > ==========>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go > to:>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237>>