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headstone - 11/23/2007 4:13:57 PM    bottle34nut   Posts: 113 Joined: 3/30/2006 From: northern new jersey Status: offline anyone ever find one of these lying around? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: headstone - 11/23/2007 4:14:36 PM    bottle34nut   Posts: 113 Joined: 3/30/2006 From: northern new jersey Status: offline another pic Attachment (1) (in reply to bottle34nut) Post #: 2

RE: headstone - 11/23/2007 4:54:13 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5159 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online quote: anyone ever find one of these lying around? Ya , normally next to graves. Not a good thing to get caught with in most places. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to bottle34nut) Post #: 3

RE: headstone - 11/23/2007 6:26:17 PM    capsoda Posts: 7917 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline I found some in a ravine that had washed from a church cemetery up hill. I took them back and helped the pastor locate all the graves in the cemetery. He had a plat map of the cemetery so it was pretty simple. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 4

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 7:39:09 AM    Whisperingwinds   Posts: 211 Joined: 10/24/2006 Status: offline Thats kind of wierdly cool.....Did anything do bump in the night while you had it? ww (in reply to bottle34nut) Post #: 5

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 10:51:11 AM    lobeycat Posts: 3803 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline yeah maybe it should be returned from wence it came. there's some litttle baby girl without a marker. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8XDgVe2EU long lost recipe (in reply to Whisperingwinds) Post #: 6

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 9:20:15 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1758 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline Jeezus there's a lot of them behind this big white building I go to on Sundays though I've never thought about lugging one home. I've seen them in the deep,deep woods and left them there. Know why? Cause there's a grave there. Once I found a pile of bricks in the woods.One brick had a womans name on it. My dumbass thought it was the brick makers name. Wrong. Had to walk a mile to take a brick back,one brick. I've also been to peoples houses and seen Confederate Veterans markers in them [Malteese Cross w/ a Confederate flag in them]. And they were proud of their find. Then I had to tell them how stupid they were.You can get one a most graveyards. Listen to Ricky take it back to the spot from wence. (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 7

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 9:55:56 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3803 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline lol....yip _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8XDgVe2EU long lost recipe (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 8

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 10:58:21 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 1693 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Done my heart good to see you two boys agreeing and all  Somehow I got stuck with takin care of our church cemetary. Weird but I kinda like it - lots of history in there.  Six Civil War vets, etc.  Rarely a new stone is ordered that incorporated more of the family and one could have been legitamitly discarded, but highly unlikely. I agree, unless you know otherwize that it's excess or lost, take it back.  You could use divining rods to see if theres a grave there.  _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 9

RE: headstone - 11/29/2007 11:23:52 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 1693 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Heres a freaky one..... a couple a year's ago I was out exploring Loch Raven Reservoir near Baltimore and came across a small cemetary out in the woods with only a handful of stones like this broken one in the pic.  Probably the remains of a family graveyard.  Laying in front of this stone was this very pristine and high quality little girl's dress.  Not sure if it was a tribute to a relative or a stranger long passed.  Hopefully it was something good and not evil......... ( insert chills here)........... lets go with the tribute thing......strange though! Attachment (1) _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 10

RE: headstone - 12/4/2007 10:46:54 PM    bottle34nut   Posts: 113 Joined: 3/30/2006 From: northern new jersey Status: offline i would love to return it but the town in which i found it in bought the property to build a new school and just bulldozed over the entire area. there were other headstones broken into pieces and i think the excavation stopped for a while when bones were found. i drove by recently and the building of the school is back on schedule. welcome to new jersey. we dont care about history. its all about the money. this state sucks, they just dont care. greg ps i wish i had taken more pictures. i now carry a camera at all times. not that it matters. (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 11

RE: headstone - 12/4/2007 10:53:27 PM    bottle34nut   Posts: 113 Joined: 3/30/2006 From: northern new jersey Status: offline i felt horrible taking it but realized it would have probably been lost forever (burried) if i didnt. i dont know what happened to the other headstones. greg (in reply to bottle34nut) Post #: 12

RE: headstone - 12/5/2007 8:43:40 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 5159 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online quote: Confederate Veterans markers in them [Malteese Cross w/ a Confederate flag in them]. I see those in antique shops every so often. I try to make it clear to the people what they are and that they are something they shouldnt be selling. Most of the time once the people understand what they are, they take them out of thier shops. A lot of people are just ignorant of history. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 13

RE: headstone - 12/5/2007 10:57:55 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1693 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Hmmm... that is a delima.  Probably good that you have it or it might have been destroyed.  You may want to secretly inquire if the graves and headstones were moved to a new location.  If they just moved on and built over top without doing anything that was pretty irresponcible on their part but I'm sure it happens all the time. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 14

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 1:23:32 AM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Loch Raven is an interesting place, one of my favorites.  I've never seen anything like that there, but there are so many areas to explore.  It can be a creepy place.  I find things every time I go, though.  What else have you found there?  Laur (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 15

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 2:01:39 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Greg... They made a movie many years ago about a housing development being built over graves.  "Poltergiest" was a big hit... "They'rrre  Baaack..." Wayne (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 16

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 7:26:40 AM    BeachComber   Posts: 49 Joined: 12/10/2007 Status: offline Hey, I once found several slate headstone peices with carved writtings on them. I guess some one had decided to build over an old Convict cemetary that was used here in the 1830s. So they took all the headstones and pitched them overboard in the ocean. I held onto a all the peices that I could find for about a year and then handed them over to a friend who put these back in their proper location on dry land. There were a few ghostly scares while I had them in my possesion, but im sure it was just my imagination!! (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 17

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 8:33:40 AM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: So they took all the headstones and pitched them overboard in the ocean. Wonder what they did with the bodies...? Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to BeachComber) Post #: 18

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 9:48:24 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Yes we found a broken one in a backyard  while looking for pits.It was on the outskirts of town, the yard was big.The owner said they buried there own in the yard some times.I don't know if he was chitin us,but the stone was there regardless.I take pix of everything under the sun but I didn't take one of that.(superstitious)  Rick _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to bottle34nut) Post #: 19

RE: headstone - 12/12/2007 9:55:19 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I found thissssss!!!! when I lifted up the broken stone! Bhahahahahah!!!!!! Attachment (1) _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 20

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