Clever! Clever! Certainly a possibility. And it could have been spelt BOTE or BODE or even, correctly, BODY! Not a certainty, but as good a possibility as anything! Vince Sherry Johnson wrote: > > Vince, > > This is another total guess, but could the missing "B" word just be "body" and not > a name at all, sort of a variation on "Here lies the body of..."? The carver of > this epitaph obviously struggled with both grammar and spelling. I imagine the > outer letters, whatever they were, have just worn away over the last 255 years. > We're lucky so much has survived. > > Sherry > [email protected] > > > This is what I make of it... > > > > 1745 > > Maria Opti > > Graff Bo_ > > Being Buried Here > > The 30th of > > August Being Eighteen > > Years of Age > > > > I was so presumptuous as to suggest the Bo_ might be a name such as > > BOM. This part is, of course, only a total guess, except that the > > length of the name has to be absolutely no more than four letters, and > > likely only three. What else remains, that is a well-known name of > > the area? > > > > ==== ORIGINAL-13 Mailing List ==== > Visit Our Homepage (Thanks, Liese Ade-Uptegrove for this!) at: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~original13/ > Images, a facsimile signature of Thones Kunders, history, etc. > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/