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From: "Vandergriff" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] MO-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 111
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:25:42 -0500
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To: Elaine in Hollister, Mo.
There is my family cemetery on our property. It is located in a field, with
no fence or anything such as a sign saying that it is a cemetery. It is just
there, in the middle of the field. There are several family members burried
there that do not have stones on them. There was no money at the time, and
since it was a family cemetery, the other family members knew who was
burried there and when they died. So that was all that mattered. The sad
part is, that the information never gets recorded or handed down to future
generations. So I think you are absolutely right about the reason for not
having a stone on a grave. It's so true but yet so sad.
Patty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine O'Neill" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] MO-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 111


> 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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