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Subject: Re: [CTMID] Tombstones
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:03:05 EST
In a message dated 3/15/2004 7:34:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
<< Which probably means that my Washington HUBBELL of Bristol, Ontario Co.,
NY, wasn't a descendant of Richard's.. >>
Ah, but he had to be. There were no other Hubbells for years - and I mean
YEARS - after Richard. Any Hubbell/Huble/Hubble, etc. is nearly certain to be
one of his descendants. We're a one-trick pony. Nowadays we find Hubels from
Germany and Switzerland who are recent immigrants, and some Hubbles from
England who descend from Richard's aunts and uncles families, but the ones in the
US during the first couple of hundred years were all his folk. Part of THFHS
membership is in Canada, we have a strong Loyalist contingent there, and there
were many who went back and forth. Some went up through Ontario and then came
back down through Michigan, etc. and made their way west. Quite interesting
actually.
What are some people doing about the documentation of cremations? I'd be
interested to know. It's something I will have to contend with as well. As I'm
the end of the line I think I'll just put a small bronze plaque with my
parents' names and my name on the family plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.
There are 6 or 7 people there now, and although he and Mom are buried in FL,
Dad and I are the last of the line, so it would be the last addition. The
family is buried in numerous states and towns, so there's no consistency. Funny
thing about that is that it would not appear in the sexton's or
superintendant's office in a ledger or anything so unless someone fell over it they'd
never know it was there. I guess it's as hard to unravel the future as the past.
Carol
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