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<DIV>Hey Les - </DIV>
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<DIV>A person could get really depressed watching the news reports of that
Haitian tragedy. We needed a good laugh today. I thought those tombstone
inscriptions were a good diversion for us. I hadn't read most of those funny
inscriptions before. We could be creative with some of
our own family names (but not really use them on the stones.) I'm thinking
I could have fun with Grandpa & Grandma Showers' surname, and then we
have John & Johanna Hore, etc. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I'll file that key list of Oregon county codes for future use. Some of
those older divorce files are interesting. One of our great grandmothers
filed for a divorce, detailing her husband's 'problems', but dropped it. We'll
never know why she didn't carry through with the suit, but she still had to
pay the court filing costs. Never-the-less he thought he was divorced, according
to later census reports. They had 7 children, but he doesn't have a tombstone -
oh well.</DIV>
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<DIV>Our genealogy club members wrote our own obituaries & read them
at one meeting. That was really fun - some were serious, others wishful
thinking (fiction) & I had fun being silly with mine. One friend saved
her serious obit, so her kids won't make mistakes. I was told by a
genealogist not to bother looking for my great grandmother's obituary in their
1901 newspaper, because "obituaries of that era were sentimental & didn't
provide much true data." Well hey - I loved the way they described Great
Grandma Bevercombe when I found the obit, & I felt more
connected to her, even if it was flowery. Grandpa B's was even better because it
told me about his adventures in freighting for a time. I'd never have
known that otherwise.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gerrie</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 1/15/2010 9:53:10 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
reedsportchapmans@verizon.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I would
have had I received such info from the person who sent this to me, but I
suspect in final analysis those are all bogus inscriptions, I just thought a
little humor might help in what has been on both a personal and international
level a fairly bleak
week.<BR><BR>Les<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>