Can anyone help with this out of place tombstone? Thanks, Jo -----Original Message----- From: Vonda Sheets <vonda@peoplepc.com> To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:39 PM Subject: Crunkleton Tombstone and more... Howdy! Now that the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is coming to a close--I hope everyone got some more info out of their relatives! <BG> First of all, because I hope this information goes out to someone with PML who is researching the CRUNKLETON surname-- My uncle, who lives in Belton, MO, was out walking his part of the family land on Friday, and discovered a tombstone set up--probably for Halloween--on his fenceline, near a gravel turnaround. He and his son laid the tombstone down, and I heard about it last night. Greg and I went to "rescue" it today, for the surname is not a Taney County name, and even with all the newcomers into the area, there isn't a single CRUNKLETON listed in the phone book. Here's the info-- Loretta Crunkleton Born and Died Feb 5 1934 I seriously doubt this came from a Taney County cemetery; I don't recall ever seeing the surname in the whole White River Valley, to be honest. If ANYONE knows of a CRUNKLETON family, and maybe a missing stone from a cem, please contact me. We brought the stone home, and want to see it returned to its home. It is not a big stone, but it is still heavy. It looks to be made of cement. Here's the link to the pictures, viewable at "The Cemetery Corner" on the White River Valley site http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/cemetery_corner/crunkletonstone.html I did a search at Rootsweb for the surname, and it seems to be mostly in the southeast portion of the US, NC, GA, and AL. (one cem in MT popped up) It is possible it was a family who "passed through" Taney County during the Depression, but it still doesn't belong where it was found. The closest cemetery is a mile away, the Berry Cemetery on Hwy 65, and I'm fairly sure it doesn't go there. I have submitted it to "Missing Links," the Rootsweb newsletter; if I don't get any leads on it in the next couple of weeks, I'll see if I can get a reporter from the Springfield paper to do a short article on it.