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From: Virginia Crystal <>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] cemeteries
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:54:00 -0800
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Brian - you had an interesting life! 22 yrs in the Navy....Thanks for looking
for the Crystals......virginia

Brian Smead wrote:

> Virginia, I have not been able to find anything on your John Crystal. Sorry
> I couldn't help. Thanks for the invite back to L.A. but one of the reasons I
> left there is because there is no snow. I think this winter I'll be eating
> those words. I also left L.A. because the Navy didn't want me in my home
> state and put me in just about every other East coast state. I retired to
> Indiana after 22 years in the Navy because I didn't want to be anywhere near
> any ocean and, as I have lived in many states and a few different countries,
> I've yet to be in a place that is more friendly and relaxing then in
> Indiana.
> Again, sorry I couldn't help you but I'll keep an eye out for John.
> Brian E. Smead
> Californian by birth
> Hoosier by choice
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Virginia Crystal <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [INPCRP] cemeteries
>
> > Brian Smead - Oh joy! The ancestor I am looking for in Parke or Vigo is:
> John
> > Crystal who died about 1843......Lived I think in Union township on land
> > purchased by this father-in-law - Benjamin Baldwin of KY
> > Widow Hannah Baldwin Crystal moved on with a son to Iowa after John died.
> If
> > there are other Crystals there - please let me know......Brian - dig out
> of the
> > snow and come back to LA - it is going to be 70 tomorrow! Virginia
> Crystal
> > Brian Smead wrote:
> >
> > > Virginia, The library here in Terre Haute has an index of all readable
> > > stones in First Prairie Creek Baptist Church cemetery. Someone else on
> this
> > > list offered to look up on their book that they have. If they can't find
> the
> > > name, let me know. I go by the library daily on the way home from work
> and I
> > > can look-up the name to see if it is in any other cemetery that has been
> > > cataloged in Vigo or Parke counties. If your ancestor is in the Baptist
> > > Church cemetery, I'd be more then happy to take a picture of the stone
> for
> > > you as that cemetery is just down the road from me.
> > > Brian E. Smead
> > > Terre Haute, Indiana
> > > formerly from Los Angeles
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Virginia Crystal <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 1:08 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] cemeteries
> > >
> > > > Where would a person in California look for (or write to) to find out
> the
> > > > people buried in First Praire Creek Baptist Church
> cemetery......virginia
> > > > crystal
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The First Prairie Creek Baptist Church Cemetery has been catalogued
> and
> > > > > printed.
> > > > > Virginia Kennedy
> > > > >
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> > If you know of some good cemetery related links, send them to
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> "Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have."
> Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)



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