I was there on the 14th looking for my Phelon and Greene connections. The lot was in a sorry state of disarray. Wish I had known someone was going to work on it on the 16th, I would have volunteered. This is the third cemetery we visited that had been vandalize. Wish people had better things to do than tear up cemeteries. ---- [email protected] wrote: > Today, 16 August, about fifteen people worked on the vandalized Warwick > Historical Cemetery # 23 Gen. George Sears Greene. This lot has over sixty > burials. Most stones having been, over the years, vandalized. Certified Welding > volunteers reset the Martha Dana cross into a reinforced concrete underground form > and began repairing the original iron fence with several sections up by 4 pm. > They also reset three other large stones. Several volunteers reset other > stones and tried to make sense of the many pieces of beautifully carved slate > stones and granite. The grounds were cut and cleaned and have never in a long > time looked so nice despite the distraction of broken markers. Other family names > in this lot are: Westcott; Kenyon; Jerald; Phelon; Rice; Fuller; Burkinhead; > Baker and Webster. Maiden surnames: Arnold; Vinton; Hull, Bissell; Tibbitts; > Wickes and Whitman. > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > 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