Providence, RI question for Marilyn

Post by **AnneM** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:15 am

When I get really stressed I am wont to recall the day my husband got us lost returning a hire car and we ended up driving through the more interesting streets in Baltimore. I don't scare easily but I can truthfully say I was never so scared in all my life. The gas station had big bars on the windows and the guy behind the counter definitely had a gun.

A far cry from 14 year olds nicking Buckie out of the Mace store at the end of the road and then putting a few stones through the windows of the local primary school.... What is it about schools that attracts vandals??

Anne

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:15 pm

Hi Anne,

You don't need to go that far afield to find these things. I know of a MacDonalds Drive-thru' in Scotland where there is a hatch through a barred window, just large enough to push a Big Mac and a large Coke through. I won't name where, as you never know if it is in one of our reader's locality.

All the best,

AndrewP

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:49 pm

I was joking, Marilyn, I thought that was fairly obvious, and I’m sorry if I got your back up.

Living in a quiet, secluded, semi rural area, as I do, where there probably hasn’t been a murder ever, and having read your description, I can sort of understand your reaction.

All the best,
Alan

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:07 pm

Hi Currie,

I thought you were joking around, but I wasn't sure because you didn't use any of these

Most big cities have thugs, but these are not home grown "gangs" their from South America & Asia.

Thankfully I live far far away from Providence.

Regards
Marilyn

Post by **marilyn morning** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:38 pm

Hello Carol,

Toni just returned my phone call. There is a marker on George's plot, it lists his name, date of death and his age, which she didn't write down.

She is dropping a copy of the death register in the mail and I should get it in a day or two? Toni offered to bring me to the stone so I could snap a picture, but unfortunately the Cemetery is only open three mornings a week and closed on the weekend. I work M-F and I won't be on vacation until the week after Christmas, so if there isn't any snow on the ground I'll try to get a picture then.

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:34 am

Hi Marilyn,

Well, there isn't anything that we can do about the cemetery hours, but I'm going to remember to check before I go off on a trip looking for headstones! I'll make a note to remind you sometime in December and if you still feel like trying for a picture, I'll be glad to have it! Too bad about your vacations. We're retired now, but I keep telling people that if you have time, you don't have money and if you have money, you don't have time!

George's death cert. says he was 9 months old when he died and that seems right. I have his exact birthdate and date of death in a folder so I can check.

I'll drop Toni a thank you tomorrow. I emailed the Burials department for Aberdeen City this morning too. Hoping for more good news there.

I was thinking this morning after I sent out a bunch of emails that I had just contacted people on three continents in less than an hour! Even if computers do occasionally drive me up the wall, I can't see me giving mine up!

Carol

Post by **marilyn morning** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:48 am

Hi Marilyn,

Well, there isn't anything that we can do about the cemetery hours, but I'm going to remember to check before I go off on a trip looking for headstones! I'll make a note to remind you sometime in December and if you still feel like trying for a picture, I'll be glad to have it! Too bad about your vacations. We're retired now, but I keep telling people that if you have time, you don't have money and if you have money, you don't have time!

George's death cert. says he was 9 months old when he died and that seems right. I have his exact birthdate and date of death in a folder so I can check.

I'll drop Toni a thank you tomorrow.

Hi Carol,

Yeah, what a drag that I can't get to the cemetery before then. I've only experienced this type of a problem once before and that was with the cemetery that the funeral director had to go visit the owner at home.

Goodness my day job keeps getting in the way of what I really want to do

but it pays the bills and I'm still holding out hope that I'll win the lottery! Yes, please remind me in December.....

Meanwhile, I'm still planning on gettting the cert for the baby to see if it holds any clues as to where he is buried. Do you have George's BC? If not, let me know and I'll grab that at the same time.

In the next few weeks, I'll try to get some pics of the address's you've listed.

Your thank you to Toni, might just make her day. Her position has to be a thankless job......

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:51 am

Good morning,

No, I don't have birth certificates for either George or the unnamed baby. It will be interesting to see how that one was handle.

When you sent George's death cert. PDF, I only received page 1. Was that all that you tried to send?

I never thought of cemeteries as being something that you could "close", but the only private cemeteries I knew about were very small family ones. Learn something every day!

Thanks again,

Carol

Post by **marilyn morning** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:45 am

When you sent George's death cert. PDF, I only received page 1. Was that all that you tried to send?

Hi Carol,

I sent three PDF files. Let me send them to you again on Thursday evening. Could you please pm me your home address again, sorry it got deleted by accident. I'll be trying to get to the archives in the next few weeks, its been rather hectic at work, so a short lunch break for me....
You know Carol, I'm thinking maybe I deserve a very long coffee break one of these days to sneak off and maybe get a pic of George's stone, before December? I fully expected to find the information from Toni in my mailbox today, but no joy. Goodness I'm so impatient..........

Regards
Marilyn

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:53 am

Hi Marilyn,

What's that jingle, "You deserve a break today..."? Well, maybe not today exactly, but some day, preferably when the sun is shinning....

I've never sent anything by PDF so I don't know where the last two pages could have gone. I think there must be a lot of stuff out there in space circling the cosmos.

Will send you the address next.

Carol