Marguerite,

I would check with any local tombstone or graveyard societies or a local historical society to see if they are interested in caring for the tombstone - if possible it should be preserved somewhere.

Here is a link I found that may be useful for research.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gonetotexas/cemetery.html

Cheers!
Dave

David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles, CA

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Marguerite Radhakrishnan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear list members,
 
We received a hundred-year-old tombstone along with a collection of documents.  While we do want the documents, we are not interested in the tombstone -- there is no information about its background (we were told that someone found it while gardening, and we do not know the date or the address where it was found), and the name does not show up in city directories for the relevant dates, so we have no knowledge of the person.  It does not fit with our collecting policy and is also very heavy -- in short, we don't want it.  The question is: how does one go about properly deaccessioning a tombstone?  Does anyone have any suggestions for what type of facility might be interested in a tombstone with just a name, a date, and a general location for its unearthing?  If no one wants it, what is the right way to divest oneself of an unwanted tombstone? 
 
Thank you,

Marguerite Radhakrishnan, Archivist I

Houston Metropolitan Research Center

500 McKinney

Houston, TX 77002

832.393.1654

 Marguerite.Radhakrishnan@cityofhouston.net

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