Sharing this amazing abstracted account and accompanying photographs from Scott Andersen:
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"We had an interesting day at the Old Burying Ground. There are numerous piles of forlorn lost stones around the
cemetery. In one near the front of the yard Venus noticed a stone that
looked like it might be a missing part to one of the headstones in the
area we've been working. See photo.
Turns out she was right. Without much difficulty we found parts to four
different monuments in the pile. This pile is a long way away from the places that these
different monuments are in the graveyard. There's still a lot of bits
and pieces in the pile. Hopefully we can figure out where more of them
belong.
The headstone in the photo belongs to Ruth Coffey. You can see that it
is broken into four pieces. The second piece down was in the pile.
We've been searching for it for almost a year now. I'd say the pile is
at least 150 yards away from the grave site.
Another
piece from the pile is the end of a bedstead type memorial, which is in
the very back of the cemetery. It's in the third photo.
We also found the missing piece of Thomas Coffey's headstone in the pile.
So, it was an amazing day.
Venus has a sixth sense maybe?"
Scott
