Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I found 5 broken headstones. Flat on the ground for years. The puzzle of repairing them took much longer than anticipated.

📍 CHAPTERS
0:00 Five broken tablets, no bases
0:52 Grandpa’s cemetery and Dad’s shop
4:50 Mapping the plot
5:31 Probing for the missing pieces
10:00 Does the keyway fit Elizabeth’s stone?
13:52 Pouring keyways in the rain
15:02 Abel Turner
17:47 The first tablet goes back up
20:32 Elizabeth Jane Turner Straight
25:08 The stone with no name
27:07 Viretta, James and John
28:40 Color matched mortar and a faint J
32:45 Regrading the plot
36:11 Why the plot was abandoned
37:24 The fifth stone

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