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