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From: "George Stone" <>
Subject: Re: [CEMETERY-L] Where to bury when theres no records?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 98 08:40:19 PST


In many military cemetaries it is common practice to have the wife buried in the same spot as the veteran. The same tombstone is used and her name may be engraved on the back (that is the way I have generally seen it) but they might also put it on the front.
Many rural cemetaries had no written records and it was just from recent memory and they generally just expanded outwards anyway, one side was old and new was in the opposite direction. I have an aunt that I know is in the cemetary but her stone has been lost. We know where the approximate location is and the funeral home records list the cemetary as her burial location.

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: In Greenlawn Cemetery, here in Columbus Ohio, there are a lot of
: husband/wife burials one on top of the other. I was amazed and it is
: recorded just that way.
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