The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 25, June 20, 2003, Article 13

RESEARCHERS: WATCH FOR SPELLING ERRORS

  An article this week in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette serves
  as a reminder to researchers to about the effects of spelling
  errors.

  "E.Z. Hall was seriously wounded in the siege of Petersburg,
  Va., on June 18, 1864. He died in a U.S. Army hospital in
  Washington four days later. His body was put on a train for
  Michigan, but by the time the train reached Pittsburgh, it had
  badly decomposed and was taken off.

  Eugene Zebulon Hall was buried in Allegheny Cemetery.
  Only his gravestone was marked "E.Z. Hail," so for more
  than 130 years, the family did not know what had become of
  him."

  Researcher Bill Reynolds "found the E.Z. Hail gravestone,
  checked the records and discovered the typo. Or, to be more
  accurate, the chisel-o."   When he told Hall's family, they drove
  from Cincinnati to honor their long-lost ancestor.

  "It took years to get the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  to change the gravestone to "E.Z. Hall," but this spring a proper
  marble marker was put in place. So this Saturday afternoon,
  139 years less one day since the death of E.Z. Hall, his
  descendants will hold a dedication service."

  For the full text of the article, see:
  http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030616brian2.asp

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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