Just wanted to put in my two cents. I am on our county's pioneer cemetery restoration committee in Iowa. We are finishing up the process of researching pioneer cemeteries (if I recall, the definition of a pioneer cemetery is one that has had fewer than 5 burials in the past 50 years). When we find a cemetery, we transcribe the stones that are found, but we also probe the ground to find buried stones. You can use a homemade probe about 3 feet long, but be careful not to damage the stones. Most times the stones will just be 2 feet or less under the topsoil. One cemetery only had 2 stones leaning against trees, but subsequent probing found about 4 more, and the soil protects the marble from weathering. The inscriptions on the buried stones have been very crisp and clear - no rubbing was necessary. I guess for any cemetery that has a private owner, you would have to have permission to probe and dig the stones. I walked a cemetery for some cousins and found the lot where the ancestors were buried, but no stones. But I suspect that the stones are just under the topsoil - I don't know if the city-owned cemetery would let me probe and dig. It's just like a treasure hunt! And, for what it's worth, my Greene County ancestors were Thomas Gay and Kate Hallenbeck Gay. After Kate's death in 1895, Thomas and children moved by train to Iowa (yes, Sylvia, sometime I will post this info on the migrations database!!), but one child, Daisy Gay Lampman, remained in Greene County. They all lived in the Coxsackie area. Thomas' parents were Albert and Maria Gay, I don't know who Kate's parents were. Merri Cross