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From: "samuels" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] Family Land Burials
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:17:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20070704.091858.2292.0.kimbuc4@juno.com>


A side note to this; In MO. one needed and needs only a death certificate to
bury anywhere not regulated by a community, land restriction, religious
affiliation or other items.ie. my husband could have buried me under the
front porch if he so choose. Your laugh or chill for the day! Looking out
the restaurant window at a car running with A.C.going and an old man in the
rear,I ask the couple if he needed to be served." No. they replied. "we are
taking him home to bury" and the wife produced a death certificate. Bud.

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Subject: [MO-CEMETERIES] Family Land Burials

Elaine;

There are many burials on family land. My father-in-law was born and
raised just outside of Bonnots Mill, Mo on the family farm. Just next to
the road leading into the farm are a couple of tombstones. Dad said as
kids they all stayed away from these graves, especially since they didn't
know the people buried there.

As today, burials are costly and were extremely costly to our ancestors.
To their way of thinking the family farm was the place to be buried, it
saved family monetary resources and then not all of these burials were
covered by official records. The old western movies always had snippets
showing burials along the trails with a rock for a tombstone or a wooden
cross. I would suspect that if the landowner knew the person, they may
have made a notation in the family paper records. One place I would look
would be an attempt to find a family bible where some of these unknown
burials might be noted. Then again, you might find people like my wife
and I that started out with good intentions of keeping the record up to
date in our Family Bible, but after 5 children, the next 4 never made it
to the Bible.

It would be interesting to check the list and see how many have continued
to track their children with the individual books to record our
children's life. The first child was usually covered rather well while
all of the following children's history is stuffed away on a bunch of
small scraps of paper and then into a shoe box.

Our younger children now in their 40's wonder if we lost our camera when
they were little, while we have tons of photos of our oldest daughter.

Your comment about "out back under the Maple tree" for their burials may
be the answer. Some people refer to these burials and note them as "Known
to God Alone".

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