[AT] funny..

[Larry Goss]

While we were in the office at Union Cemetery on Thursday, they 
received a shipment of cement for tombstone repair work.  I did not 
take a look at it directly, but from the conversation that ensued, I 
gathered that they are using ordinary Sackcrete Mortar mix.

Tracing the current ownership of abandoned cemeteries is a problem.  
We ran through the abstract index in the courthouse on Friday trying 
to trace the current ownership of an abandoned cemetery and could 
not find any entries regarding it having ever changed ownership 
since the church trustees signed for it in the 1840's.  The 
ownership may be held by the national church organization or by 
another congregation down the road a few miles.  The search goes 
on... 

Larry

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Henry Miller wrote...

>
>We are mixing threads now.   I was talking about fixing 
headstones.    I've 
>never found anything that works for fixing gas caps.
>
>On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:23, charlie hill wrote:
>> Henry I think it's the clear part of the guage he is saying is 
broken.
>> That's why I said clear epoxy.  Personally if could get a couple 
of more
>> years out of it before it clowded over then I'd just deal with 
the problem
>> again then.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
>> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
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