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From: Jeff Hatfield <>
Subject: [NUTTER-L] Old Headstones
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:27:38 -0400

>
>Mike,
> I think that this is an excellent idea concerning adding another
headstone or a footstone. When I was back in WV in 1996, I stopped at
Propst Lutheran Church near Brandywine (in Pendleton Co). This cemetary
was full of old headstones. Many of these were just slabs of jagged
limestone porturding about 1 to 2 feet above the ground. This was actually
quite an eerie sight.
> The so-called founder of this church, John Michael Probst was my
ancestor and you could still make out some writing on his headstone ("J. M.
P. 1789"). Beside this original marker was a newer headstone/footstone
that simply had his name and birth and date year. I thought this was a
really nice touch. The original was left in place, yet the new one made it
so much easier to determine who rested there. The newer marker was flat
and realitively small, but it served its purpose. I probably won't have
realized whose grave it was until I went back to my records with out it.
>
>Nice note- It shows what genealogy is really all about
>
>Jef

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