On my day off today, I hit a couple of antique shops & then visited an old cemetery called the Stonewall Cemetery in Fairfield County, Ohio. It dates from 1817 & there are only 8 people of the Wilson surname interred there. It is beautiful & a resting place worthy of one of the pioneer families of the area. It gets its unique name because of the 7-8 foot circular stone wall surrounding it. You can only see into the cemetery through a small gate. Today it was locked. As I looked inside, I became nauseous. Every stone, every marker, every monument had been broken into small pieces -- the apparent work of vandals. Worse than the dreaded genealogical brick wall is the vandalized tombstone. I used to think that a cemetery's worst enemies were rain, wind, age & overgrowth. I now know that these don't compare to the apathetic, willful & malicious destruction of family history that I witnessed today. If I am ever called to serve on a jury dealing with a case of cemetery vandalism, the defendant better hope that I am disqualified or that I don't remember what I saw on this day. I may vote for the electric chair. Sincerely, Mike Peters [email protected]