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Subject: RE: [SACKETT-L] Re: Pliny Sackett
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:01:36 -0400

I received the pictures Don sent in today's mail.

I have scanned them and used every manipulation I can think of and cannot get the last number to show up clear enough to determine exactly what it is. As can be seen in the photo that Fred Sackett has on the Sackett Headstones website, there is a dark stain over that portion of the headstone. It looks as though some time in the past someone has used chalk in an effort to make the number readable. The most obvious conclusion would be that it is a zero; with the other possibilites being a 3 or a 6.

Don said in his note that Fred is planning on making a return vist to the cemetery to see if he can determine what the number is.

So, as the popular phrase of our time says: "Maybe we will get closure on this" before long.

Thurmon

wrote:

>Let me re-enter the discussion on Pliny.  I looked again this morning at the
>pictures I took in June of Pliny and Elizabeth's headstones in Southwick, MA.
> What is quite clear in Pliny's is that he was 82 when he died.  Also that he
>died October 8, 183?  The last number is a bit smudged but it does look like
>an "0".  
>
>I had written Fred Sackett about this in late June and he reads the tombstone
>the same. I have tried to make the last number read as a "5" with the tail of
>the "5" making it look like a "0" .  But that does not really work.
>
>Thurmon, I am sending you the tombstone photos I took, one of Pliny, one of
>Elizabeth, and one of both stones together. See what you make of them.  
>
>What is touching is that now Elizabeth's stone is leaning way over toward
>Pliny's, like she is wanting snuggle up close to him!!
>
>Who else lives close to Southwick and can maybe check out the dates from the
>local church or cemetery records?
>
>Don in Napa.
>
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--
Thurmon
Our greatest mistake could be
worrying that we will make one.


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