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Subject: 'slightly imperfect' headstones
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 07:34:49 EDT

In a message dated 07/04/2000 2:17:46 AM Atlantic Daylight Time,
writes:

<< "Uncle So and So was the executor of the estate and when the stone mason
offered to either re-do the stone or give it to him at half off, he took the
half-off!" >>

When my husband was an undergraduate at Michigan Technological University he
lived in a rented 'house' in Hancock, Michigan with 6 other students. The
dwelling was a store front building on the corner of Quincy & Hill (?). Many
years before, maybe even a century before, it was where the memorial
stonecutter worked. The stuff left in the basement was fascinating --
marketing posters for headstones from the 1800s, etc. There were many
headstones down there, either never collected, or 'slightly imperfect.' We
always wondered if some did not pay their bill! I wish I'd had a penchant
for family history then! Now that old storefront has been razed and is a
used car lot...

Amy Goodman
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Researching GOODMAN, BROAD, MAKER, GOULD, MARTIN, STEVENS
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