The story is that the old rebels would say that they were glad that their tombstone would have the point on the top so there wouldn't be any Yanks sitting on it. Wayne Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "shirly1" <shirly1@swbell.net> To: <dwsbgs@centurytel.net>; <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Headstone pictures - Benjamin B. Bray > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "samuels" <dwsbgs@centurytel.net> > To: <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:08 PM > Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Headstone pictures - Benjamin B. Bray > > >> Supposedly there is a difference round top markers Union , pointed >> markers confederate. I am sure this is a wags story but? This is >> true. My brother is a member of the SCV and he said that's the way it >> was. I have been to several SCV memorials and all of the Confederate >> stones are pointed on the top. In fact, in Quincy, IL there is a >> Confederate Cemetery and all of the stones there are pointed. In a >> couple of our local cemeteries there are both pointed and round and, if >> you look at the engravings on them, you will see that the Union stones >> are round and the Confederate are pointed. And they are engraved with >> dates and other information like who they served with. I have a gggUncle >> who was Confederate and his brother, my gggrandfather, was Union. Both >> survived the Civil War and after the war they bought land side by side. > By the way......I'm in Missouri. > Shirly > >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

That is what my brother said also, but I didn't know if I should mention it!! Considering we probably have some 'yanks' on this list! :-) Shirly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne and Sharon Johnson" <johnsonwe@earthlink.net> To: <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Headstone pictures - Benjamin B. Bray > The story is that the old rebels would say that they were glad that their > tombstone would have the point on the top so there wouldn't be any Yanks > sitting on it. > > Wayne Johnson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shirly1" <shirly1@swbell.net> > To: <dwsbgs@centurytel.net>; <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 9:24 AM > Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Headstone pictures - Benjamin B. Bray > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "samuels" <dwsbgs@centurytel.net> >> To: <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:08 PM >> Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Headstone pictures - Benjamin B. Bray >> >> >>> Supposedly there is a difference round top markers Union , pointed >>> markers confederate. I am sure this is a wags story but? This is >>> true. My brother is a member of the SCV and he said that's the way it >>> was. I have been to several SCV memorials and all of the Confederate >>> stones are pointed on the top. In fact, in Quincy, IL there is a >>> Confederate Cemetery and all of the stones there are pointed. In a >>> couple of our local cemeteries there are both pointed and round and, if >>> you look at the engravings on them, you will see that the Union stones >>> are round and the Confederate are pointed. And they are engraved with >>> dates and other information like who they served with. I have a >>> gggUncle >>> who was Confederate and his brother, my gggrandfather, was Union. Both >>> survived the Civil War and after the war they bought land side by side. >> By the way......I'm in Missouri. >> Shirly >> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MO-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >