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From: "Peter M. & Andrea D. MacDonald" <>
Subject: [CEMETERY-L] Footstones -- Thefts or not -- future e-bay material?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:16:53 -0700


Hello all,

I really hate to bring up this subject but must because so
many people feel so strongly about it. Do you realize that
it is these very types of stones that may one day end up on
e-bay with everyone screaming that they are stolen? Yet,
you see here how they are not stolen--merely discarded by
the cemetery authority. Perhaps those people who feel so
strongly about theft in the graveyard and the auctioning off
of funerary objects should think about this and reply to
list. This is a perfect opportunity to voice your opinion.

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Andrea D. MacDonald "Andi"


Washington State Cemetery Association
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wapsgs/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry R Rauhauser <>
> To: Grave-L Cemetery Listserv <>
> Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 7:37 AM
> Subject: [Grave-L] Uses for Footstones?
>
>
> >From: Barry R Rauhauser <>
> >
> >To all,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has ever come across any
uses for old
> >footstones? When I attended the AGS conference last
year, I attended a
> >conservation workshop in which we righted a few stones,
cleaned a few,
> >glued a few of the broken ones....etc. While working on
a stone, we
> >came across a footstone to a burial lot two rows away.
It was a neat
> >find but what the heck could you do with it? We ended up
placing it
> >underground next to its matching headstone...which all in
all seemed
> >like a good enough place for it, safe and secure....only
buried so no
> >one could ever see it.
> > So now I am researching an early 19th century German
gravestone
> >carver in York, Pennsylvania. Many of his beautiful old
stones are
> >found in a yard which will soon need some sort of
conservation; many
> >stones are broken, leaning, laying down. But while
photographing the
> >stones I was snooping around an old fence row and
discovered piles of
> >old footstones....the caretakers must have uprooted them
at one point
> >and stacked them to the side so the mowers could get
through.
> > So I would like to (at some point in the distant
future when I got
> >the time) propose a volunteer cleanup and restoration day
at the
> >cemetery. I know the cemetery has done these days in the
past, though
> >without much guidance in the methods and techniques of
restoration. But
> >what could I do with all of these footstones? Many are
PA-Dutch folk
> >art with tulips and hearts and seems a crime to bury
them. And leaving
> >them stacked about fifty feet in the woods where they are
breaking from
> >their own weight and covered in leaves seems not so good
either....so
> >what could I do?
> > Placing them in their original spots would be
wonderful....but
> >doubtful that the cemetery association would be willing
to do it since
> >it would then take about ten extra hours to mow the yard.
So I was
> >thinking of something that would allow the stones to be
seen, yet not
> >get in anyones way or cost too much money....any ideas?
> >
> >--Barry R Rauhauser
> >http://www.personal.psu.edu/brr118/
> >
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