>At 02:31 PM 02/19/2000 -0800, you wrote: >>This list has been far too quiet lately, > >Well, all right. Looks like there is some activity. My contact there was a >great grandfather. He was born >near Stone Mtn, GA and now lies in sight of Mt Hood at Dufur. Its a nice >hillside cemetery near the former >first- night's- stop- on- the- trail, that became Dufur. ( I think the >pamplet read something like that.) On one of >the 4 trips to find the grave and further history of WILLIAM PITCHFORD >STONE, I spent some time with >a library employee in The Dalles, who was I think, the staff genealogist and >was a most helpful lady. (being >an old guy, I say lady .. no offense intended to "women") GGF Stone went to >the area in the early l900s >with his daughter's family, the Hancocks. I expect some of them are still >there. Finding his gravesite >was one tough assignment in spite of two obits from two separate papers , a >death certificate and >even finding one of the pallbearers from 1938 still living at the end of >Wolf Run Road. >When all I did bore no fruit, someone I had helped on the Helplist here came >through with a person who >was interested in confederate veterans and THAT LADY FOUND THE GRAVESITE. >No marker was >present . Don't know if there was one originally. A new one will go up >this spring and a few (or more) >of his descendants will be there for the occasion. I , for one, think >genealogy can be lots of fun. > > Oh yes, in the thrashing of all this, I have found half a dozen cousins, >Hancocks, Creels, Lenzi s et al ... >ron > >