Hi ALL! Just checked and the auction has been pulled! Way to go gang! Regards, Jim Hawes Arkley & Kathy wrote: > > To ALL: > > All of us need to contact e-bay and protest this kind of auction. They are > selling our ancestors cemetery markers! This is not an appropriate auction > item! If this gets to be a trend as a collectable none of our ancestors > will be at rest under their hard earned recognition of service. Protest to > e-bay! Tell them NO WAY! If we as a community speak up we may be able to > slow this cemetery robbery down. See item for sale! This one is still > available: > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=96875810 others down > at bottom of text for viewing also. It makes me want to cry. Send this on > to those you think would care enough to protest this act of desecration. > Sorry to all list owners if this breaks any of your posting rules. But it > is genealogy related. If anyone must comment on this to anyone. Do it to > e-bay! > > Kathy Busby > > The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion > of our consciousness. -Albert Einstein > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carolyn Feroben [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 12:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Stolen Tombstones for Sale? Maybe > > This one is still available: > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=96875810 > > Carolyn > > Betty J. Cox wrote: (NOT ALL REMOVED! And no policy change!) > > > > Well... The power of group consciousness! All those cemetery markers > have been > > removed from e-bay!!! Atta a way to go, NORCAL LISTERS!!! > > > > Arkley & Kathy wrote: > > > > > I called the FBI and alerted them of this sale. I am horrified by this. > It > > > could have been my ggrandfathers GAR marker. They didn't seem very > > > concerned. Thanks for the alert. Grave robbing and destruction is > awful. > > > We need to nip this in the bud! > > > Kathy Busby > > > > > > The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical > delusion > > > of our consciousness. -Albert Einstein > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Carolyn Feroben [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 11:30 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Stolen Tombstones for Sale? Maybe > > > > > > This is a message that just came accross CAROOTS: > > > > > > > > For those of you who appreciate old cemeteries, this > > > > is something that may be of concern. I saw this on > > > > another mailing list and thought I would pass it > > > > around. > > > > > > > > E-bay has several on-line auctions going on currently > > > > of Tombstone makers. Now, where the sellers obtained > > > > these is not always clear, but if the word got out > > > > that Civil War era tombstones had value, I can name > > > > numerous Los Angeles area cemeteries that would be > > > > heavily impacted. > > > > > > > > At Evergreeen Cemetery in L.A. I saw many "GAR" > > > > markers identical to the one's listed below. > > > > > > > > I am going to send an E-mail to E-Bay telling them > > > > that I think this is an inappropriate item to sell. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=95765135 > > > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=95765620 > > > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=96301772 > > > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=98328212 > > > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=96742252 > > > > > > > > > > Carolyn > > ==== SHENANDOAH Mailing List ==== > SHENANDOAH Families Mail List Archives: > courtesy of Rootsweb, our gracious host! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Just type in the mail list's name: SHENANDOAH