Thanks! I wrote and said my piece! -----Original Message----- From: Arkley & Kathy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 4:07 PM Subject: [ZIMMERMAN-L] FW: Stolen Tombstones for Sale? Maybe >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 > > > >==== ZIMMERMAN Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >