Long-missing headstone gets permanent home
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | The headstone for Elizabeth Schenck was found at the Thomas Dodge Homestead and is now back at Monfort Cemetery. (Aug. 29, 2012)
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A historic headstone that was lost, discovered, then discovered again has made it back to the Port Washington cemetery where it belongs.
At a ceremony at Monfort Cemetery Wednesday, town officials joined historians to mark the replacement of the 238-year-old headstone of Elizabeth Schenck, the 2-year-old daughter of Revolutionary War-era patriot Martin Schenck.
The headstone, which had...
