Once you're gone (dead) maybe your family (or you) won't be visiting your own gravesite after all.
"Tombstones that were used years ago to shore up the
seawall at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach are once again visible. .... The Tombstones and thousands like it were used throughout the city for various purposes, including landfill.
The National Park Service, which manages Ocean Beach, says it does not plan to remove the gravestones." San Mateo Daily Journal/Associated Press, 6/9/12. "Tombstones uncovered at S.F. beach." Read more. (same small Associated Press article in San Francisco Chronicle, 6/8/12)
"One nearly intact marble headstone uncovered this week belonged to Delia Presby Oliver, a member of a prominent family who died April 9, 1890, at age 26.
Headstones also emerged from the shifting sands in 1977, startling beachcombers." USA News Today/Michael Winter, 6/8/12. "Winds unbury old gravestones shoring up SF beach seawall." Read Article.
KTVU, channel 2, video, 3:49 minutes "Tombstones on Ocean Beach: A rare find along San Francisco's western edge." "The past few weeks of May and June, beachcombers have been finding tombstones from the 1800's that were put on the beach to protect against erosion in the 1940's."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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| Tombstone headed for landfill next century |
"One nearly intact marble headstone uncovered this week belonged to Delia Presby Oliver, a member of a prominent family who died April 9, 1890, at age 26.
Headstones also emerged from the shifting sands in 1977, startling beachcombers." USA News Today/Michael Winter, 6/8/12. "Winds unbury old gravestones shoring up SF beach seawall." Read Article.
KTVU, channel 2, video, 3:49 minutes "Tombstones on Ocean Beach: A rare find along San Francisco's western edge." "The past few weeks of May and June, beachcombers have been finding tombstones from the 1800's that were put on the beach to protect against erosion in the 1940's."
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