Tombstone rubbings aren't that easy.

My hubby and I were browsing in an old cemetery in Greene County, Ohio, one day when I came upon an old tombstone that was near some of our family stones. This one was so weathered I couldn't read it very well. "No problem." I said. "I'll just make a rubbing of it and it will appear before my eyes." Right! First off, I hadn't prepared ahead of time, not realizing this situation might come up. So I didn't have the few tools necessary to do the job. —like tissue paper or pellon, black crayon or "rubbing wax", soft brush to clean off the tombstone face, and masking tape to hold the paper still while you rub.

This is what I came up with.  I'm glad I wrote the few words I could read off the stone. I will never know who Mary was the wife of though.

Somehow it seemed a lot easier back when I was a kid sitting in church making rubbings of the organ on the front of the hymnal.