Hi all, Hint on making print larger on E-Mail: If you have a PC, hold down the Cyrl button, and scroll the Mouse wheel toward you. For a MAC, use the Apple + button. Try it. Carl Hommel -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "AGFranks" <[email protected]> > Hi All: > > I am passing this on to the Mendon List also from Donald Barnes. > > You are very welcome and we who take an interest in such things are very > glad to help you. > > I will send this message below to Alice our List mom in larger print so that > she can read it better. > > Regards, > > Alison > > >From Donald Barnes: > > Thank You! Thank You! > > Thank you for finding my great-great-grandfather's and mother's tombstone. > > My name is Donald Warren Barnes, Jr. and I was born in Uxbridge > > My father was Donald Warren, born in Uxbridge and died in Macon, Georgia > > His mother was Harriette Fletcher Albee (1879-1909) born in Mendon > (Horse Corners). She was teaching school at Horse Corners when my > Grandfather, Frank Warren Barnes married her. Frank operated a > jewelry store in Uxbridge and was UxbridgeTown Treasurer for many > years. > > Harriet's father was Charles Henry Albee (1845-1906) who married > Eliza Ann Robinson (1847-1927) from Paris, Maine. > > Charles Albee was the son of Enos Taft Albee(1814-1887) who married > Deborah Nichols (1818-1875) > > Enos Taft Albee and Deborah Nichols are buried in the Albee cemetery > in Horse Corners. It is only their tombstone that has moved. > > Their Granddaughter Harriette had a younger daughter, Bertha Albee, > who outlived her sister by many years. > > About 1946, Bertha Albee, my great-aunt, took me to Horse Corners and > we went into the cemetery there. It was terrible condition but it had > a broken down metal fence. She cried when she saw that the > undergrowth and trees had almost hidden her grandparents stone (s). > She tried scrubbing the face of the stones but we had nothing to work > with so we had to leave alone. > > I live in North Carolina and probably will probably never be able to > visit Uxbridge and Mendon again in this lifetime. However, sometime > during the 1990's, I was passing was in Uxbridge and I tried to fine > the Albee Cemetery. It's location is shown on government maps and so > I thought it would be easy to locate. > > I had come up from Blackstone on some back road and did find Horse > Corners. A neighbor told me there was an old overgrown cemetery a > few hundred yards away from the corner. I could find only a few > broken tombstones and none with the Albee name. > > I don't know where the old stone has been all these years but > obviously was not protected in the old cemetery. > > What to do with the old stone? As far as I know, I am the only > surviving relative of Enos and Deborah. My vote is to put it in the > Mendon Cemetery where it will be more difficult for it to roam. Then > take a token shovel full of earth from the old resting place and > spread in at the new. > > > > > > ==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== > Worcester GenWeb has many Resources > Check it out!! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces >