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From: "Michael & Maureen McHenry" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUDSON-L] Re: Obits
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:33:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <BAY4-DAV158COhZX5Y40002e3c3@hotmail.com>


I have found Obits as far back as 1880 on some of my Irish. They were
recent immigrants and poor. I haven't been so lucky with my Germans.
This may be a language thing. How do you place an obit if you only speak
broken English?

Mike McHenry
19 Valley View Rd
Washington, NJ
07882
Phone No. 908 835 1750

-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:35 PM
To:
Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Re: Obits
Importance: High

I think one always pays for death notices -- they are charged per word
like
the classified ads, which is really what they are.

Obituaries, on the other hand, are news stories about news-worthy
people,
whose deaths many readers will want to know about. Subjects are not
charged
for news stories about them --- in that sense, an obit is just like a
crime
story or an election story in the newspaper. But if you were in a large
metropolitan area, your chances of having a large obituary were pretty
slim
..... not so in a small rural town in northwest Missouri where, for
instance, my husband's great grandfather's 1900 obit even told what he
left
in his will and to whom --- and how much his life insurance policies
were
worth and with what companies he held them!

Maureen



----- Original Message -----
From: "George & Jackie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Obits


> Marion,
>
> My experience has been a little different than Kathy's. I found obits
for
> my first generation relatives, but their graves are bare. I had to get
the
> maintenance people from 2 cemeteries show me where the graves were. I
kept
> walking over them, not realizing there wasn't a headstone.
> I don't know if my ancestors were educated or not. By the way, the
males
> obits seem to be "wordier" than the females.
>
> Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "crowandheron" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Obits
>
>
> > Marion-
> > My personal experience is that many of my relatives who had just
come
to
> > this country (i.e. immigrants)
> > especially from Ireland had very little education. It was more
> fashionable
> > for people who had been here for a generation or so to post obits
unless
> it
> > was in one of the Irish newspapers. I do not know if there was a
charge
> > back then. Very few of my relatives' deaths initially made it to
the
> paper.
> >
> > I am looking for Markhams who lived in the Hoboken/Jersey City area
of
> > Hudson County. Are you related to them? Specifically I am looking
for
am
> > Michael MARKHAM who married my GrGrAunt Marie/Mary LARKIN. I have
some
> > information about that family. I would love to hear from you off
list
to
> > see if there is a connection.
> >
> > Kathy
> > Denmark, Maine
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marion Markham" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:35 AM
> > Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Obits
> >
> >
> > > Someone suggested that I pay for an obit search for my
> > > gr-grandfather. Does anyone know if a family had to pay to put a
death
> > > notice in the newspaper in the 1860s?. Since they were poor, I
doubt
> that
> > > they could have afforded to pay for one.
> > >
> > > Marion Markham
> > >
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