Daphne, other Caddell cousins,
My apologies. I have no intention of restarting or refighting the Civil
War. My genealogical research has identified ancestors on both sides of
that war and others.
I am as bothered by this situation as anyone. Some years back someone
dug up my grandmother's mother's grave and actually scattered the bones
through the cemetery. The reason they dug it up was because it had a
nice headstone, making the perpetrators think that the deceased person
might have been buried with jewelry.
In reality, the headstone was placed there years after my Great
Grandmother's death at a time when her children could finally afford
one. My Great Grandmother died of pellegra, a form of malnutrition
common in the old South. It came from a diet that consisted primarily
of hominy grits.
Jim Nix
Daphne Kilbourn-Jacob wrote:
Daphne Kilbourn-Jacob wrote:
>
> Jim & Donna Nix wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > It saddens me to think that fellow Alabamans would have done something
> > like this. (Probably some o' them Dam Yankees that retired here...)
> >
> > Of course, I can't help but wonder if these people ever saw the movie
> > Poltergeist.
> >
> > Jim Nix
> Some of us "Dam Yankees" came from the NC Caudles, who were brought
> up North by our parents for economic reasons. Some of us are
> trying to get the money together to go back and find our ancestor's
> gravestones and official records. Vandalism of cemetaries and graves
> is a serious crime in CT, not just listed on the police blotter but
> also given an article in the news paper. When caught, these prep-
> ataters are almost always kids. Communities here are shocked by the
desecration of graves and attempts to alter the sites of cemetaries to
put in superhighways and malls, etc. are met by citizen action groups.
"Dam Yankees" revere their dead as well, and many New England towns have
volunteer groups that go to historical cemetaries to repair and restore
gravestones which have deteriorated over the centuries.
My ancestors fought and died in the
> VA and NC Militias in the War of 1812 and the Civil War, which I hope
> we are not going to reenact on this List.
> Daphne Jacob, nee Caudle