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From: "bill" <>
Subject: Re: [TX-Cem] Theft
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:39:27 -0500
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That's a sad story --- old jealousies should die out along with the
participants.........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eveline Crocker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TX-Cem] Theft


> Thanks, Susan; for adding this for our information files.
>
> I found one of my gggrandfather's wives' stone missing about five years
ago after the last wife's descendants had him and their grandmother curb in
and a new stone placed for her, when I began questioning everyone about it,
they claim they didn't remember her ever being
> there yet six of her infant children are buried there.
>
> My mother made a remark that the third wife was the only grandmother she
ever knew. Her natural grandmother was the second wife whose stone is still
standing outside the curbed lot with his babes.
>
> A half great grand uncle had paint the four look alike stones with silver
paint years before in attempt to cover the moss and tree sap which had
darken the stones.
> And other family members were very anger since it looked awful.
>
> I didn't have a picture to prove that her stone had been there and all
their children are dead, only grandchildren and great grand children
remaining; but I did sketch a picture from memory and placed it on line.
>
> I believe the monument company who placed the new stone and curbing
removed both stones, but they deny doing so.
> So, even some family members sometimes takes things into their own hands
without considering the whole family and have things removed or added.
>
> I take pictures of all the cemeteries now here in Shackelford County Texas
and have just add the old cemetery on Fort Griffin Historical Park to my
Shackelford County Cemetery site at
<http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tx/county/shackelford>; or
> <http://geocities.com/texannusa/txshac/index.html>;
> Again, thanks for the information.
> Texann
>
>
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> Know the name of the town but not the county?
> This address will lead you to an area locator
> with maps: http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo
>
>
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