{"id":54309,"date":"2014-08-04T23:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=54309"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:23:52","slug":"old-tombstone-found-near-vasquez-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/08\/04\/old-tombstone-found-near-vasquez-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tombstone found near Vasquez Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54311\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54311\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-1.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy LASD)\" width=\"592\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-1.jpg 592w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-1-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy LASD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ACTON \u2013 A Sprint employee made an unusual discovery while working near the Vasquez Rocks in Acton\u2026 the broken and discarded tombstone of a woman who was born and died in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>[Around 3:30 p.m., Monday, August 4,]<strong> Joe Trader<\/strong> was working on a cell tower near Indian Brave Road and Valley Sage Road when he found the tombstone nearby.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54312\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54312\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1800s-tombstone-2.jpg\" alt=\"(LASD)\" width=\"281\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(LASD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trader called the Sheriff\u2019s Department and the tombstone was taken to the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station by Deputies.<\/p>\n<p>There were no clues to where the tombstone came from or how it came to be abandoned in the hills. It is unknown if it had been stolen and discarded or if it had been abandoned in the hills after having been replaced with a newer grave marker.<\/p>\n<p>The tombstone is engraved with \u201cMother\u201d on the top and the name \u201cSarah Robinson\u201d on the front.<\/p>\n<p>It gives a date of birth of May 19, 1822 and a date of death of June 22, 1889.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station at 661-272-2400.<\/p>\n<h4><em>[Information via press release from the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station.]<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTON \u2013 A Sprint employee made an unusual discovery while working near the Vasquez Rocks in Acton\u2026 the broken and discarded tombstone of a woman who was born and died in the 1800s. [Around 3:30 p.m., Monday, August 4,] Joe Trader was working on a cell tower near Indian Brave Road and Valley Sage Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}