Gregory Rogers Quotations

Actually, Jacob's father, James Fleming (1773-1857 and his wife, Jane Hulse Fleming (1774-1843), were the first to settle in Point Pleasant. They moved from Shrewsbury to Point Pleasant and opened a tavern and a maritime business. Jacob and Mary Fleming were the first Flemings to live their whole lives in Point Pleasant.

And then as I looked around and noticed many other stones, all broken in the same way, I was sickened as I realized that this was an act of vandalism. When I collected myself, I was determined to figure out how to repair the stones, and help the other families repair theirs as well.

This might help them understand just how different things were around here back then. My relatives had rested peacefully for more than 100 years in that little cemetery, which begs the question: Was it just dumb luck that they had never been disturbed before? Or is this evidence that our society's most basic standards of human decency are eroding?