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Ancestry/Genealogy

Rosie1223

(2,013 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:41 AM Oct 2012

Found on Reddit :(

Picture Text: That moment you realize the decorative stones your landlord put in your yard are actually chopped up gravestones...

(hopefully this isn't real.)

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Found on Reddit :( (Original Post) Rosie1223 Oct 2012 OP

Oh wow... pipi_k Oct 2012 #1

I wouldn't be too surprised if that is real... Spider Jerusalem Oct 2012 #2

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

1. Oh wow...

Reply to Rosie1223 (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:40 AM

Oct 2012

if it is real, it sure does suck!

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

2. I wouldn't be too surprised if that is real...

Reply to Rosie1223 (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 12:16 PM

Oct 2012

but then, this sort of thing happens more than people realise; highways and shopping centres get built, eminent domain clears out old graveyards, the graves that are known are relocated, and very often the gravestones will be broken up and sold as rubble (especially stones marking graves of people with no relatives who can be located).

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