[AT] funny..

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 01:03:53 PDT 2006


Nice site Danny.

Here in Sweden it's very odd with cemetarys that not are around the church.
Most exceptions are some kind of hospital. And that goes for most of the old
world.

Mattias


2006/10/29, Larry Goss <rlgoss at evansville.net>:
>
> 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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