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From: david soule <>
Subject: Re: [MA-CEM] West Springfield???
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:46:42 -0500
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Dear Roberta,
Please...anything you can do for me would be great. Annie's obituary states Mt.
Orthodox as does the funeral home records. Mt Orthodox makes no sense...I hope it would
be another one. I think that they lived in West S. in 1900...or abouts. Are there any
census records or directories that would find them....????
david

wrote:

> David,
> Are you sure that's the name of the cemetery? There is a Mt. St. Marie in
> West Springfield, Ma. near the Holyoke, Ma. line, behind Providence Hospital.
> It's a nursing home and they do have an old cemetery in the back called
> Calvary Cemetery.. Owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph and is private. I have
> a friend who is working on the burials for the nuns, maybe she can take a
> look when she goes back there.
>
> Roberta Cyr
> Springfield, MA.
>
> > Subj: Re: [MA-CEM] West Springfield???
> > Date: 7/11/01 10:21:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> > From: (david soule)
> > Reply-to:
> > To:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I did.
> > They stated that they had never heard of a Mt. Orthodox. This is a real
> > mystery.
> > Annie's [for whom I seek] sister is buried in this area. I searched long
> > and hard for
> > her lot and found it listed...I went and there was no stone...went to the
> > office; the
> > card was blank. Her children disappear from all
> > records...directories...census...etc.
> > I looked for these women's parents...after looking page by page through
> > Portland's death
> > records I found the mother and the lot number. I went to the cemetery
> > office and they
> > told me that part of the cemetrey has never been used.
> > Meanwhile all other brothers and sister completely disappear from all
> > records.
> >
> > Where the heck did this Annie go. Even the undertaker is stumped. If I
> > could find her
> > or her husband Eldridge...
> > david
> >
> > Joan Cook wrote:
> >
> > > How about contacting the Greek Orthodox church in Springfield, MA?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: david soule
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 2:02 PM
> > > To:
> > > Subject: [MA-CEM] West Springfield???
> > >
> > > Annie Robbins, wife of Eldridge, died in South Portland, Maine in 1935.
> > > Her remains were sent to Mt. Orthodox in West Springfield [according to
> > > funeral home and obit] It doesn't exist!?
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me?
> > > david
> > >
> >
>
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