NASSAU COUNTY, NY (JTA) – Jewish gravestones may have been used to make a bed of crushed rocks laid on the banks of a creek in New York’s suburban Nassau County.
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A reader of the online edition of the Jewish Press told the publication that she and a friend whose house backs onto Hook Creek in North Woodmere were walking along its banks when they discovered a Jewish star and segments of Jewish words carved into the rocks.
The rocks were laid to allow utility trucks easier access to electricity poles in the area.
The reader, Deborah Gregor, provided a photo of the rock fragments to the Jewish Press, which first reported the discovery. The words included “beloved” and either mother or father.
There is also the possibility that it came from stones that were made and never used but recycled by crushing them
highly doubtful these are from actual graves, which cemetery removed gravestones? More likely they were samples from monument makers sold as scrap
Or the headstone was replaced, and there happened to be nobody with the same name and date of death, that happened to want the same inscription, such as, “loving father”
Years ago there was a similar finding of grave monument fragments. It turned out that the fragments were from stones that either had errors or were never claimed by the purchasers, not removed from graves.