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From: "Phyllis A. Heller" <>
Subject: Re: Thanks to all/cemeteries/burials
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:56:54 -0600
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Maxine,

Just as a suggestion-I would not take the newspaper article to be in error.
I have been researching the two cemeteries that are in my small Iowa town.
I am going through old newspaper films to find deaths that occurred in this
area and most of them say which one of the two cemeteries the burial took
place in. Although I have found no cemetery markers for some of them
does not mean they are not buried here. At one time there was five churches
in my small town, now only two exist. So where are the records from the
three that are no longer here?? Back in the late 1800's and early 1900's
older parents went elsewhere to live close to their children and when they
died the body was bought back to be buried in the cemetery where possibly
an infant was buried because of a lot being available, and when no one any
longer lives close the to cemetery the graves may have never been marked.
Recently someone emailed me to find an infant that was supposedly to be
buried in one of these cemeteries. There was no record to be found on it.
I went through newspaper to find the death and found the infant was taken
to the grandparents lot in a neighboring town. A search of the records there
did not list the infant as being buried there either. But due to more research it is
reasonably sure this is where the infant is buried.
And as you said some states did not start recording deaths until in the early
1900's. Even then they are hit and miss, the death may never have been recorded.
IMO- I would not disregarded the article.
Phyllis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Maxine" <>
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: Thanks to all/cemeteries/burials


> Thanks to all for the suggestions in finding my lost six relatives in NE.
> They (NE) did not keep records until 1904, so that is out.
> I have had people walk the cemeteries and also talk to the caretaker of
> the cemetery that the newspaper article said one of them was buried
> in--but he has no record, so it appears that newspaper article was in error.
> I have not been able to even find a cemetery around where they lived.
> Many moons ago I went to a search engine and typed in cemeteries and
> what I got was porn, so I haven't tried that again.
> Thanks again.
> Maxine
>
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