Chas. This isn't really an answer to your question but if someone has access to cemetery records for the town of Madison, perhaps these people are buried in one of the cemeteries. I've found that sometimes, when a family monument was purchased, the family brought separate (earlier) stones back to their property. Donna B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Page" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:20 PM Subject: [NYMADISO] Brainard Family >I was asked if I had any information on a Brainard Family in town of >Madison. A gentleman uncovered near his back lawn what appears to be a >grave with a stone broken into three parts. > As near as can be read, it is for Lydia and Frederick(?) Brainard. > Anyone ever hear of that family? > Chas > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Chas and Donna I have a fairly current list of burials in Madison Village Cemetery. There are no Brainards, or Brainerds, buried there, with what I have. John

Thanks, John. chas ----- Original Message ----- From: "JCB" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Brainard Family > Hi Chas and Donna > > I have a fairly current list of burials in Madison Village Cemetery. > There > are no Brainards, or Brainerds, buried there, with what I have. > > John > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1398 - Release Date: 4/25/2008 > 2:31 PM > >

In one case I know of on the grave of a relative 40 years ago, the monumemt company removed the stone from the cemetery because of a misunderstanding about the payment (which turned out to be their mistake). If that was a common practice I would bet some stones never made it back to where they belonged, were kept by the workman, or put to some other thrifty purpose. Just a few years ago at another cemetery I saw numerous modern stones lying around next to a shed, rather than on the graves they belong to. It seems like a desecration to remove a stone. --Pam B.