Greetings,
We have a similar problem to this in California. Oftentimes when a spouse
dies an individual marker is ordered and placed. Later, when the other
spouse dies, the children buy a double marker. We've found the replaced
stones in the oddest places.
It is our thought that the old stones should be buried on top of the grave
of the deceased they represent. In that way, if it is found later, it is
still marking the grave and no one gets concerned when they inadvertently
find it.
Food for thought...
Sue Silver
El Dorado County
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From: UEB <ulyssesb(a)nltc.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:30 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Dumped Tombstones
This article was in todays issue of The Muncie Starpress.
Tombstones dumped in River.
http://www.thestarpress.com/Local_News/0627tombstones.html
U. E. Bush
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THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
undisguised. This is a cemetery.
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
--Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA