Pauline Mitchell Pierce
Wrong inscription on headstone
Fri Oct 27 15:46:22 2000


A distant cousin recently installed a headstone on our mutual g.g.grandfathers grave. I did not know he had applied for it until after he had received it. He is not a genealogist, but a Civil War reinactor, he did not know anyone else was working on getting one until his grandmother received the notice for the annual reunion. He then contacted us with the fact that he already had one. He was unable to come to the reunion and on the day he came to install it I could not be there because of a death in my family.

I went by the cemetery last week, took pictures and noticed that the wrong middle initial was on it, but then in the old script a T can look like a F. Yesterday when I picked up the pictures (which turned out great, even though it was misting rain at the time)and looked at them, it registered that almost all of the information on it is incorrect. He evidently used another man's (of the same name)war record. Ours was a private, not a corporal, ours served in Co. B, not C, ours was in the 55th Regiment Ala. Vol. Inf, not the 1st. Ala Cav. He has the correct year of birth and death.

He had promised to send me a copy of his information that he used to obtain the marker. I used the Confederate pension application, I do not know what he used. Since I discovered this I have not contacted him yet becasue his father is in a coma from cancer and I did not want to disturb him, but I will contact him.

May I have some input from others, especially if this has happened to anyone else? Can I apply for one with the correct data, what will Washington think of all this?

• Marker — Donna, Fri Oct 27 19:25
• Application available online — Donna Moore, Mon Oct 30 14:35
• Marker — Homer Jones, Sat Oct 28 02:01
• Forms — Donna, Sat Oct 28 02:17
• papers for marker — Pauline Mitchell Pierce, Fri Oct 27 19:57
• Markers — Donna, Fri Oct 27 20:13
• Marker — Jim Crocker, Fri Oct 27 16:53
• Wrong inscription on headstone — Pauline Mitchell Pierce, Fri Oct 27 17:47
• Pension applications — Hayes Lowe, Sat Oct 28 10:14