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From: "Linda Johnston" <>
Subject: Re: Shaving Cream on Tombstones
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:42:46 -0400
References: <20031022130130.17054.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>


Sharon:

She puts the shaving cream on the stone to make the words on the stone
easier to read. This is a NO NO! The shaving cream contains chemicals
which helps to further degrade the older stones. It is much better to take
a rubbing using paper and charcoal. I wonder if she used water and rinsed
the stone off after reading it?

Linda Johnston


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Zurn" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: OHCARROL-D Digest V03 #125


> Patricia
>
> I have to ask, what do you do with the shaving cream in regards to old
tombstones?
>
> Sharon
>

> From:
> To:
> Subject: St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery
>
> To all those who gave me directions to the St. Francis Xavier Catholic
> Cemetery in Malvern - many thanks! What a beautiful church that is. I was
able -
> with some effort and shaving cream - to locate the headstone for my
> GGGrandmother. If I had waited any longer, it would have been totally
unreadable. My 2
> day whirlwind tour of N. Ohio was great - what a beautiful state!
> Patricia
> Oregon

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