{"id":29385,"date":"2013-10-29T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29385"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:56:48","slug":"vandals-damage-headstones-at-canton-new-york-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29385","title":{"rendered":"Vandals Damage Headstones at Canton (New York) Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29386\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20131029\/OGD\/710299808\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bilde-400p.jpg\" alt=\"CEMETERY DAMAGE - Vandals toppled headstones during the weekend at St. Mary\u00b4s Cemetery on Riverside Drive, Canton. (Kimbler-Lago photo)\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bilde-400p.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bilde-400p-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEMETERY DAMAGE &#8211; Vandals toppled headstones during the weekend at St. Mary\u00b4s Cemetery on Riverside Drive, Canton. (Kimbler-Lago photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CANTON, NY<\/strong> \u2014 Vandals knocked over headstones and did other damage Sunday at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Cemetery on Riverside Drive in the town.<\/p>\n<p>St. Lawrence County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies said 36 headstones were knocked over or displaced. Flags and flower pots also were broken.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Douglas J. Lucia said visitors noticed things were out of place in the cemetery about 1:15 p.m. Sunday and notified him. He then went to the cemetery to see what had happened. After realizing the amount of damage, he reported it to the police.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20131029\/OGD\/710299808\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/centralny.ynn.com\/content\/news\/702545\/police-search-for-answers-as-cemetery-cleanup-begins\/?ap=1&#038;MP4\">Another article from a different news agency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, NY \u2014 Vandals knocked over headstones and did other damage Sunday at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Cemetery on Riverside Drive in the town. St. Lawrence County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputies said 36 headstones were knocked over or displaced. Flags and flower <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29385\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Vandals Damage Headstones at Canton (New York) Cemetery<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries","category-new-york","category-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29402,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385\/revisions\/29402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}