From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jul 4 12:59:03 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k64Ix3jb027712; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:59:03 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k64IwpJa000901 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:58:51 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k64GLfFI013500 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:21:41 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k64GLfef013499 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:21:41 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k64Fo6FI013342 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:50:06 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k64IR6An016931 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:27:06 -0600 X-Envelope-From: gbarron@daktel.com Tue Jul 4 12:27:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k64IR6jb016920 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:27:06 -0600 Received: from smtp2.daktel.com (smtp.daktel.com [66.163.144.19]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k64IR2dP024967 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:27:02 -0600 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1152037607-14480-14-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://400filter.daktel.com:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from hppav (jmst-ftth-nn-6-68.daktel.net [209.243.6.68]) by smtp2.daktel.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id 8349E6C78C6 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:26:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000a01c69f97$5c414fa0$4406f3d1@daktel.net> Reply-To: "George L. Barron" From: "George L. Barron" To: "ROOTS-L list" X-ASG-Orig-Subj: grave stone needs a home Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:26:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Virus-Scanned: by smtp2 Spam Filter at daktel.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=4.5 KILL_LEVEL=1000.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.16175 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Barracuda-Rcpt: roots-l@rootsweb.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] grave stone needs a home The chances are quite high that the mother who is missing a stone has a new one of her own and this is just a reject that is making the rounds. Our experience in the last 20 years or so of compiling county cemetery books and visiting with sextons is that most of those stones that are floating around are rejects. The cemetery sexton where I live was called about a college kid with a whole pickup full of tombstones. The cops were called and the kid taken out of class and he was using them for weight for winter footing--all were rejects. When we worked Eddy County ND cemeteries, we got a wide eyed story from a farmer whose grandfather had dug up a boy's stone in his front yard with a death date of 1846. SInce there are likely no known burials by non natives in ND at that time, it was thought that some pioneer brought this reject on the homesteading trip as a good place to iron shirts or cut pie dough. I was able to use the name and date of the kid who owned the stone and tracked him back to maybe Ohio and he was nesting well with a new stone that gave all of the important dates etc. Your stone to go home would make a nice down spout water splasher and some other guy a hundred years from now will get excited when he digs up the stone. Relax. George