In a message dated 4/19/00 9:23:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: <<Maybe the cemetery is underfunded, maybe they are understaffed, I don't know, but I would think a public cemetery with many, many members of Colonial New Jersey families buried in it could do better.>> Oh, gosh, David, my experience was also unpleasant...... I have the obituary of my great great grandfather, Henry Gabriel. He was an elderly Civil War veteran buried in the Rahway Cemetery in 1922. I knew for a fact that he was there, and I wrote (several times) and asked for an approximate location of his gravestone. Eventually they wrote back and told me that he did NOT have a stone, that his grave was unmarked. This seemed odd to me, but I accepted it......after all, they would know! Several years later I went to the cemetery in search of Henry Gabriel's in-laws. I found their headstones, and as I was stepping back to take a photograph, I tripped over..........you guessed it.......my great great grandfather's headstone. The very headstone that the Rahway Cemetery folks told me did not exist. Obviously this wasn't important to them, but it was a treasure to me, and I am so glad that fate intervened, or I might have taken them at their word, and never found Mr. Gabriel's gravestone. This was a valuable lesson to me, though. Sometimes a "dead end" is not a dead end at all. Doesn't a cemetery....which is actually a business.......keep record books? I would love to see the Rahway Cemetery records. Kathy