Hi Everyone - I had a great time in Cincinnati, though I didn't get as much info as I had hoped, but the trip was well worth it. We spent a good deal of time finding (or attempting to find) places that my grandmother remembered from her youth. Almost all of the houses and businesses that she remembered were gone, but we took copious pictures of those that remained. The "crown jewel" for my grandmother was seeing the house that my gg-grandfather built in Bond Hill in 1927 for my grandmother and her parents to live in. While at Spring Grove (wow!) I noticed that one side of my family had what looked like German Iron Crosses engraved into their headstones. Can anyone give me any information about this practice? Though the family was German by heritage, they were not German war veterans and the insignia is on all of the graves, regardless of the date of burial (the graves range from 1881 to 1965) and the gender of the person buried. Maybe there was a local fraternal group whose practice it was to put the crosses on their headstone? Also, if someone were an inmate at the age of 22 at "Our Lady of the Woods" in Springfield township on the 1900 census, what would that mean - maybe they were destitute? Thanks very much! Chaille