[AT] funny..

[Henry Miller]

About 15 years ago my Grandpa fixed a few with cement, and it worked great, if 
you don't know what to look for it is hard to tell.    I don't know if he 
used a form, or just some stiff mortar.   Experiment on a few stones first I 
guess.

I wouldn't use Epoxy - UV from the sun will destroy most epoxy in short order.

On Saturday 28 October 2006 11:39, Steve W. wrote:
> Francis Robinson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Don't know if you guys are trying to be morbid  with all this cemetery
> > talk or just trying to get in the season with Halloween next week
> >
> >
> > 	A cemetery morbid??? Not to a genealogist...   ;-)
> > 	There is a TV commercial on now that shows a couple getting all upset
> > because they just looked out the window and discovering that outside of
> > the window of their great hotel room is a huge very old cemetery. They
> > start preparing to leave at once. If that were a genealogist the reaction
> > would be "COOL!!!! Let's go look..."   ;-)   ;-)
> > 	As a parallel, imagine looking out of your new hotel window and seeing a
> > huge collection of restored antique tractors, each with a story to tell.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > --
> > "farmer"
> >
> > The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live
> > at all.
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > Central Indiana, USA
> > robinson at svs.net
>
> There are a few OLD cemeteries around here that folks seem to just
> ignore. I have been attempting to restore the one behind our fire
> station to some semblance of order by filling in the collapsed graves
> and straightening headstones. I would love to repair the iron fence
> around it and cut down the sumac trees as well but so far the town
> doesn't like that idea. Maybe I'll just have to do it anyway.... I hear
> it is easier to get forgiveness than permission sometimes.
> I have to find some good epoxy for a couple stones, they are the nice
> carved marble ones with huge finials on the tops and a couple have lost
> the top ball. Any suggestions out there. I talked to a local memorial
> outfit and was told that THEY repair stones but don't tell others how.