{"id":504,"date":"2006-02-27T05:10:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2006-02-26T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T04:10:29","slug":"babys-tombstone-heads-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/02\/27\/babys-tombstone-heads-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby&#8217;s Tombstone Heads Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Leckie writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/\">Frederick News-Post (Maryland)<\/a> about a story that has interested a lot of genealogists &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/sections\/news\/display.htm?storyid=46916\">Baby&#8217;s tombstone heads home<\/a>.  The tombstone dated back to 1777 and was transported from Pennsylvania to Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/sections\/news\/display.htm?storyid=46916\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stone, which vandals ripped from the grave of 8-month-old Charles Coulson, was dated Dec. 17, 1777.<\/p>\n<p>But no one claimed ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Reading about the tombstone Jan. 12 on the Web site for The Frederick News-Post, Tara Richards, a former Frederick resident now living in northern Alabama, did what came naturally. She went into research mode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Tara Richards&#8217; research, Sheriff&#8217;s Corporal Jennifer Bailey phone calls, and with Jeffrey and Laurie Storer&#8217;s driving to Frederick County, MD, and transporting the tombstone back to their parish in Pennsylvania.  No word on who did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Leckie writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/\">Frederick News-Post (Maryland)<\/a> about a story that has interested a lot of genealogists &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/sections\/news\/display.htm?storyid=46916\">Baby&#8217;s tombstone heads home<\/a>.  The tombstone dated back to 1777 and was transported from Pennsylvania to Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}