[78-L] Billy Murray Tribute?!

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

Strange how there is no inscription on the reverse side of the Stone with his full name and dates of birth and passing. Is his wife buried in the same plot ? Since it was just him and his wife, and Billy had no children, maybe there was no one to order the stone mason to complete the job. I see many gravestones where this is the case, there are no remaining heirs or the ones that remain just forget to do the inscriptions, and after awhile the process is totally forgotten and lost with time. How sad. 

Bruce 
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From: bobhope at optonline.net 
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Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:52:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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As for Billy Murray's Tombstone --- There is just a small monument with only his last name "MURRAY". He is buried in Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury, Long Island, NY. 

Bob Lang 

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> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:26:23 -0400 
> From: Bill Knowlton 
> Subject: [78-L] A Billy Murray Tribute?! 
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> I've just contacted the Starr-Gennett Foundation with website 
> material on Billy Murray. Billy did, in fact, record for Gennett. 
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> As you may know, the Starr-Gennett Walk Of Fame is located the 
> Richmond, Indiana "gorge" where the Gennett Record recording 
> studio and record production facilities were located. 
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> A series of beautiful round plaques with mosiac-like pictures of 
> Gennett-Champion artists run along two sidewalks with the likes 
> of Bix Biederbecke, Lawrence Welk, Uncle Dave Macon and Bradley 
> Kincaid being given the permanent tributes they TRULY deserve. 
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> I hope the selection committee accepts Billy Murray. 
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> As far as I know there's no monument to him anywhere, except, 
> perhaps, on his tombstone. 
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> Check out the Starr-Gennett Foundation's website! 
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> www.starrgennettfoundation.org 
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> And let's keep our fingers crossed! 
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> BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight 
> (EST) over WCNY-FM (91.3) Syracuse, WUNY (89.5) Utica, WJNY 
> (90.9) Watertown NY, also: www.wcny.org udmacon1 at hotmail.com 
> Since 1973! 
> PO Box 2400, Syracuse NY 13220-2400. 315-457-6100 
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