Joan, If you'd like to send me info on how to get to the cemetery and any info you have on where the tombstone is located, I will try to get there in early January after I get my money for the month and before I start nursing school and have to give up genealogy for awhile. I could send you a digital picture if that would work for you, and/or will get some film and take a regular pic and mail it... Have a safe and Happy Holiday season... Di Diana R. Holland Abbott, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: <JRose10700@aol.com> To: <TXHILL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: [TXHILL] Re: Itasca cemetery > > I had an experience in the Itasca cemetery a couple of years ago when I was > looking for my great-grandfather's grave. > I had locked my keys in the car when I was eating lunch in Hillsboro so I was > late in the afternoon getting out to Itasca. I went by the funeral home on an > off-chance, and sure enough, records there showed they had handled his > funeral, and the lady gave me the grave number and where to find the cemetery. > Now as some of you know, this is located a couple of miles out of town on a > little traveled country road. It is laid out in neat squares, and I did not > have the numbering system. As I am mildly handicapped, I was driving slowly > up and down the interior lanes, trying to read the family names on the plots. > Then chunk! my car went dead. Absolutely dead, right in the middle of the > cemetery less than hour from sundown. > No way could I get it started again. > So I hobbled out, made my way to the corner and hoped for a car to come by > before dark. Finally, a pickup, going in the wrong direction, but the kind > gentleman stopped and asked me my problem. He said he did not have a cell > phone in the car, but he would drive me back into Itasca and see if we could > find a police official. > In front of a pizza parlor we found a car with a cherry on top and I went in > and asked for someone official. The man who claimed it said he was a fireman, > but he could help me if he could catch a guy that ran a parts shop and garage. > This man was closing up, but he agreed to tow in my car and see what he could > do. It needed a new alternator and a new belt, so he drove into Hillsboro to > get one while I went back and ate a pizza. > It was too dark to look for my grandfather's grave now, and I was due back > next day in Oklahoma so I had to leave. I was grateful for the kindness of > all the Itasca folk. > Incidentally, if anyone is going out to the Itasca cemetery, I would surely > like to have a picture of his grave. John P. Wilkinson, died in December, > 1925. He was a Confederate veteran. > love > joan > For this is the day that the Lord hath made > Join me in rejoicing in it, and let us be glad! > > > > ==== TXHILL Mailing List ==== > Website by Debbie: http://cathy_shelley.tripod.com/index.html > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhill/ > Barb's Photo Page:http://members3.clubphoto.com/barbara260032/guest-1.phtml > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >