I sure hope you didn't use crayons on the actual face of the tombstone....that would be a REAL no no! What I do, when a stone is hard to read is the following....take a soft brush and remove surface dirt. Using masking tape, I fasten a piece of banner paper (bought at any office supply store) across the face of the stone. Then, using a crayon (using the long side, not the point) or rubbing wax, I rub across the face of the stone. This covers the area of the writing with crayon and allows the areas of the letter indentations to show up as just white paper, often making the unreadable, readable. I always carry with me a mailing tube with the paper, a paint brush and some rubbing wax stuck down in it, some masking tape and scissors to cut the paper. After the rubbing is made, I roll it around the unused paper and stick it back in the tube. (don't ask me what I plan to do with them, but I have a bunch of these rubbings, all rolled in a large mailing tube......every once in a while I get them out and look at them...pretty neat.) Sandra " We found our stones just as we were giving up the search. Though the graveyard is small, the oldest stones, and ours were among them, are severely etched and worn. After a long search in Barnesville, we couldn't locate chalk to highlight the inscriptions and we settled for crayons. " -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.20/508 - Release Date: 10/31/2006