From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jul 15 08:43:19 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 k6FEhJjb019821; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:43:19 -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 k6FEhFZS027102 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:43:15 -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 k6FC5aFI014449 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:05:36 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6FC5ari014448 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:05:36 -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 k6FBVvFI014308 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:31:57 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6FE9PmR005426 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:09:25 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JohnMxzz@aol.com Sat Jul 15 08:09:25 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 k6FE9Pjb005415 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:09:25 -0600 Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com (imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6FE9Ksj005600 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:09:21 -0600 Received: from JohnMxzz@aol.com by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.388.82a16b6 (32913) for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:09:19 -0400 (EDT) From: JohnMxzz@aol.com Message-ID: <388.82a16b6.31ea510e@aol.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:09:18 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5319 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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] The stone mystery - I thought you would be interested in the out come A couple of week ago I posted a query asking for help finding a home for a grave stone found in Niantic, CT. The headstone had the name "Carrie E. Pren---", the dates 1846 - 1914 and the word "mother". This info I got from a newspaper clipping. Well someone found who she was. She was born Carrie E. Prentice and lived in East Lyme, Connecticut, she married Dwight B. Pierce on 1 Aug 1866 after which they moved to Essex, CT where Carrie died in 1914. Burial records show that Carrie and Dwight were interred in the Union Cemetery near the Niantic Center school. Dwight has a headstone but Carrie does not. There is no record of her ever having one. Betty Murphy, a member of the East Lyne Historical Society, offered an explanation for how the headstone wound up by the train tracks. She said a stone carver used to work at the corner of Hope and Methodist Streets in Niantic. The carver, she said, would throw his "junk" over the side of the tracks. Carrie's stone however was the only one found there. Why was the stone Junked? Maybe the carver broke it while carving or maybe because he used her maiden name in error, instead of her married name, and the family wouldn't pay for the stone. Anyway, it appears that the stone was never on the grave however a lot of people had a lot of fun trying to tracking down Carrie, me included. Some felt it was a waste of their valuable time. John