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    1. The Albee-Nichols Monument
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    3. 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.

    04/22/2006 12:18:24