I found a mistake on a tombstone today

At the Northern California Veteran's Cemetery, no less.

Mr. Yarbrough cannot have served in the Marines in World War I if he was born in 1927. :crazy:

:think:

:patriot:

But the guy at the visitor center was APPALLED, so I don't think that's what happened. :P

"Died tragically rescuing his family from the remains of a destroyed sinking battleship."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Tenenbaums

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/

I wonder how nobody noticed at the burial service - seems like it should be pretty glaring for those who knew him...

Like nobody noticed before...

I think the way they do it there is they bury the person, and get the stone later, but still... nobody has visited the poor guy. :(

I have a great-grandmother buried in a veteran's cemetery and there's a mistake on her headstone. When she died there was no empty burial space near my great-grandfather so the family panicked briefly over what to do because they wanted them buried together but my grandfather and his siblings had young families so it would've been difficult to pay for having my great-grandfather moved. While they were making funeral arrangements they were contacted and told the family of the person buried next to him was having the remains moved so that space was available. Since she was a veteran so the government paid for her headstone and after all they had gone through the family never pushed too hard to have it fixed.

I don't know anything about the guy other than what was on the stone. :shrug:

about undying love and never-to-be-forgotten family, except that you have to brush away the weeds and the dust to read it. That's partly why I want to be dumped at sea (cremated or not) - I'd rather not be the featured item in an abandoned and decrepit grave...

Information on headstones is admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule, like birth certificates and family Bibles with baptism records.

Woah, somebody better get that changed!


.....for this I went to law school.........:wtf:

Sounds like the family should send in a request for additional benefits...

They'll crawl out of the womb, kick your ass, and crawl back. :P

(Which is a train of thought I'm going to abandon NOW, because my overly-vivid imagination is causing me to feel imaginary pain...)

Oh Morticia, isn't a lovely day to go down to the cemetery and window shop the gravestones?

the fabled ONE LOG LOAD.

I think it was Doug Fir, and it filled the back of the log truck. :o

...that must have been eight feet diameter at the base. That was on the 299 (or maybe 96 on the other side of Hupa, I don't recall). There are some high volume stands left on the national forest up there, but none of that's been cut since Clinton came to office unless it was some salvage scam, which is probably most likely, now that I think about it. It's hard to imagine anything like that left on private land, although I have seen some 6-8 ft diameter Douglas fir up on Friday Ridge Rd that might be on private land. Just isolated trees, though. A former grad student and I climbed a couple of those back in '99 or 2000.

A one log load is pretty impressive. Tree was probablely 500 yrs old or more.

on edit: my original memory of that beast's size was probably over-enthusiastic, LOL. Monster logs inspire awe.

spelled the last name wrong.

ended up with a mistake on her headstone when she outlived the century. She already had 19-- carved on it, and she was pretty mad that she had to get it fixed. She died in 2006, though, so she won't have to change it again. We were beginning to wonder, she was pretty unstoppable.

No one from the marker company noticed until it was in place.

We made them do another.

a friend of mine lost her dad last year. They sent his body back to his native Scotland for burial and she was very upset to visit his grave site and note that his burial marker listed the date of his death as the date it was in Scotland even though her dad was in Wisconsin (and it was still the previous day) when he died. I thought that was pretty odd. Anyone know if it's common to do that?