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From: "Elaine O'Neill" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] MO-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 111
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 00:42:39 -0500
References: <20070703.181925.1108.0.kimbuc4@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070703.181925.1108.0.kimbuc4@juno.com>


Thank you, Bill for all the wonderful information. I intend to file
this for future reference.

I have one question, if I may. Don't know if you'll have an answer,
but I'll take that chance.

What are the odds, in poor, rural areas in the last half of the 19th
century, that persons were buried on family land...no gravestone, no
record anywhere of a burial? I have on in particular I've been
searching for in either Howell or Texas county. The cemetery books
have been checked there is no listing anywhere for her. There are
other members of her family that are equally elusive. I wonder if
they were just buried "out back under the Maple tree" and then when
the family moved on they are left behind and forgotten.
This is the only scenario that makes any sense at this point.

Thanks for any light you might be able to shed on this sort of situation.

Elaine O'.
Hollister, MO
On 7/3/07, <> wrote:
> List members,
>
> For the past several days there have been a number of messages concerning
> the lack of information on burials and tombstones.
>
> I have mentioned this in the past but apparently there are many new
> members. Some basic information about cemeteries, concerns tombstones.

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