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