Wendy, Cemeteries have been vandalized for years. Headstones also break due to age and weather conditions. A cousin's stone was one of those flat ones on the ground...we knew where it should be, so his cousin stuck a pencil into the ground and found it! Lots and lots of reasons for headstones to disappear. One cousin told me the story of a neighbor kid who found an old family cemetery when his family moved to a farm. With all good intentions, he took the headstones to make a walk to the front door for his mother! Jan > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [NJWARREN] Missing Headstone > From: "Wendy Watkins" <catwoman@enter.net> > Date: Sun, October 15, 2006 8:14 pm > To: <njwarren@rootsweb.com> > > Hi All, > I was just wondering if anyone knew of or had experience where they went to > a cemetery and found a headstone missing of a relative and if so what could > be the reason for the removal. How should I go about finding out this > information. Thanks so much! > > With Warm Regards, > Wendy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJWARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A good contact would be: blairstownhistory@earthlink.net I have been restoring local cemerteries in Blaistown, N.J. since 2001. It's tough work probing, re-pointing, setting-up, re-pinning, gluing, cementing, making new bases, etc. Read Family Connections (google it) has some photographs of the on-going work being done. Big problem = FUNDING. It's not hard to get volunteers (sometimes) but the hard part is always money-money-money! It's also very heavy demanding work. Everyone involved must care - especially the relatives of the deceased! Brian Rhodes jan@raub-and-more.com wrote: Wendy, Cemeteries have been vandalized for years. Headstones also break due to age and weather conditions. A cousin's stone was one of those flat ones on the ground...we knew where it should be, so his cousin stuck a pencil into the ground and found it! Lots and lots of reasons for headstones to disappear. One cousin told me the story of a neighbor kid who found an old family cemetery when his family moved to a farm. With all good intentions, he took the headstones to make a walk to the front door for his mother! Jan > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [NJWARREN] Missing Headstone > From: "Wendy Watkins" > Date: Sun, October 15, 2006 8:14 pm > To: > > Hi All, > I was just wondering if anyone knew of or had experience where they went to > a cemetery and found a headstone missing of a relative and if so what could > be the reason for the removal. How should I go about finding out this > information. Thanks so much! > > With Warm Regards, > Wendy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJWARREN-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 NJWARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in this world! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.