{"id":1110,"date":"2007-02-26T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/26\/cemetery-medallions-guestblog-from-george-g-morgan\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T04:00:54","slug":"cemetery-medallions-guestblog-from-george-g-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1110","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery Medallions – GuestBlog from George G. Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"

After posting the information on the Skowronski \/ Dymek \/ Danko gravestone in Notre Dame Cemetery, I received a message from George G. Morgan, well-known genealogy author and lecturer .\u00a0 Many people are familiar with George through the online classes<\/a> he teaches, his “Along Those Lines…”<\/a> column, and the Genealogy Guys Podcast<\/a> he hosts with Drew Smith.<\/p>\n

In his message, George provided some interesting information about cemetery medallions:<\/p>\n

Thanks for the response on your blog about the medallion on the grave
\nin MA.<\/p>\n

I am really a cemetery addict — a taphophile of the first magnitude — and have photos of tens of thousands of cemetery markers from all over the world that I’ve taken or that have been taken for me by great friends.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t seen that particular medallion in recent times. However, I did go back and found a couple of examples. I suspect that they, like the Confederate Cross of Honor stakes that the UDC placed on Confederates’ graves, have been stolen (or removed by cemetery workers ‘cleaning’ the graves).<\/p>\n

BTW, in my hometown in NC, there was a terrible rash of cemetery vandalism about a decade ago in which the vandals pried DAR, SAR, Mayflower Descendants, Masonic, Eastern Star, and other bronze medallions from footstones and tried to sell them for scrap.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, several scrap metal dealers contacted the police and more than a dozen people were arrested, tried, and convicted of felony destruction\u00c2\u00a0of property and grand theft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, George!\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit, I really haven’t paid much attention to the medallions in cemeteries .\u00a0 I’ll have to correct that slight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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