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SLUG: ME-TOMBSTONE PHOTOGRAPHER: NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST DATE: 03/24/2006 QUANTICO MARINE BASE, VA Raymond "Buck" Jones, 78, goes through the stacks of paperwork he collected on his great-grandfather Charles William Jones (1835 1909) at his home on Friday, March 24, 2006. Raymond "Buck" Jones spent five years doing research to prove that the unnamed confederate soldier at Belle-Haven Cemetery on Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, is his great grandfather. StaffPhoto imported to Merlin on Fri Mar 24 18:51:01 2006 FROM STORY: on the dining room table, sits his findings: a three ring binder, about four inches thick. ГThis is the master book, he said, plopping it on the table in front of him. It contains a faded photographs, marriage certificates, birth announcements, obituaries... It is a culmination of tidbits, a few isolated sentences here and there, that together tell the story of the Joneses. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)