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From: "Joanne Ballard" <>
Subject: Re: [VERMONT-L] Fw: [IA-NEB] STOLEN GRAVE MARKERS being Auctioned on E-Bay
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 06:22:18 -0400


There are some instances where markers may not have been stolen but
discarded.
In an instance in my family markers on some of the graves were replaced
because they had gotten old and worn. As the person who had replaced the
markers traveled home he got to a point in the road where he stopped his
vehicle and threw the old markers on the side of the road. Some time later
when the town was widening the road work came to a halt when the crew came
across these old markers. They thought they were disturbing some old
graves. It wasn't until someone realized that these people were buried in a
cemetery in the next town over that they were able to resume work. I am
not saying that the theft of gravestones doesn't exisit but that there are
sometimes other explanations.

Joanne

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