My grandmother passed away in 1927, when my dad was just a small boy. For some reason, she wasn't buried in the family plot. (There was already an earlier wife buried there, so maybe it didn't seem right...) More important, though, there was never any headstone put on her grave. When Dad was in his late 70s, he went back to Dayton, found her grave, and had a lovely marker put there finally. He made sure he took me to that spot so I would know where she was buried. I have now taken MY children there, so she will never be lost again. Last year, I went way out in the Ohio countryside and located the little cemetery where some of my great-grandparents are buried. There is a nice headstone, but it was evidently put up before my g-grandmother died and nobody ever bothered to engrave her date of death on it. I want to take care of that one day. There are also some infant ancestors of mine in Ohio who never got headstones. Wonder how many people in life have been totally forgotten in death because nobody could or did mark their resting places? I know many people of color have definitely been lost because their cemeteries were not respected like those of others! On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM, paul <pogoat2@webtv.net> wrote: > Kat, > Speaking of graves and stones.. > When my Mom died in 1942 we were too poor to buy her a stone and she was > buried in the paupers part of the cemetery down over a bank away from > the other gravesites ..all of her kids chipped in later and erected a > stone which reads from the Bible: > > Her children rise up and call her blessed. > > . When we go back to visit her grave now, I believe it is the most > beautiful spot in all that large cemetery,,it is under some huge trees > and it seems so peaceful down there, away from everyone else.......... > Ole Paul > > keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul > > ********************************** > Note from List Administrator!!! > The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us > something about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ********************************** > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >