Thank you for following up on the stones. It is so important to preserve that history. -----Original Message----- From: ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ny-troy-irish-gensoc-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Philippo Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 2:26 PM To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] "Old Marble Headstones (Downtown Albany)" County of Limerick. Requiescat in peace A'men. J.H. Sawyer utica. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfNUo1dUQ3dmtJcWc/edit?usp=sharin g Historic Albany Foundation OK'd temporarily storing the headstones and the family that has them is OK with that too. I'll get them clean enough to read, transcribe them, and then go about determining if they belong somewhere or if the families had purchased new stones and these were discards. Whether the stones found elsewhere in the South End in 1999 were found to have been replaced or not, I don't know http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clifflamere/Cem/CEM-AlbAll ey.htm Discards do happen and can cause confusion even when there's a definite attempt to indicate they're no longer headstones. Here's one at Oakwood where the names were chiseled away http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=102227281&PIpi=7255122 6 but the family in whose plot that stone was found didn't know what to make of it and thought it marked a grave. The boys whose grave it once marked are buried in a different section of the cemetery and have a new stone that matches the obelisk the family bought. A marble one in Schaghticoke might have been buried and replaced by the family's granite monument, or the older one might have been kept to mark the individual grave within the family lot. It's hard to tell what's the case: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128388173 The older one has more charm - and more information. Chris ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: Troy Irish Genealogy Society www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message