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From: Diane <>
Subject: Re: Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:47:51 -0500
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Dear Robert,
I can't wait for you to finish with the inventory of the Maple Hill
Cemetery. I have three ancestors buried there.
Diane Renfrow


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:13:38 -0500, Robert Perry
<> wrote:
> I would love to have copies of any of the cards you have. I didn't know
> those existed. However it makes sense.... I've been involved with
> inventorying Maple Hill Cemetery in Bluefield, Virginia. And they used such
> cards, ad called them "Intake" cards, I believe. And like yours, the amount
> of data varied, depending on who filled it out at the time.
>
> Are you able to scan and email the cards. If not, I'll send you my snail
> address.
> I do remember corresponding with Carol regarding Clarence Marshall Peery.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Robt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol & John Otto" <>
> To: <>; "Robert Perry" <>
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Monte Vista Park Cemetery
>
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I believe you communicated with my wife Carol some months back concerning
> > the relative she was looking for named Clarence Marshall Peery. During
> > our successful search for Clarence, his family and relatives, we obtained
> > Monte Vista cemetery cards from the Roselawn Cemetery office, located on
> > U.S. 19, just off U.S. 460 between Bluefield and Princeton. The person
> > who assisted us was quite helpful when we visited this past October. The
> > four cards she was able to find cover burials from 1934-1949. The cards
> > differ slightly in the amount of information answered, but each has spaces
> > for the following information: place of birth; last residence; age in
> > years, months and days; cause of death; place of interment; check blocks
> > for married or single; date of death; check blocks for female and male;
> > date of interment; name of nearest relative or friend; what looks like
> > "outside case" (with "Wood" typed in the block on two cards); undertaker;
> > lot owner; lot diagram no. & grave fee. A serial number and the name of
> > the deceased is typed on the bottom line.
> >
> > Interestingly, they did not find a card on a 1992 burial in the same lot.
> > Of course, that card may have been misfiled. Because the cards were not
> > optimally organized, the person helping us had to check a lot of file
> > drawers looking for the six records of interest to Carol. She found four
> > of them. She found the other two deceased listed on grid cards showing
> > the layout of graves that are buried in the same lot.
> >
> > We have copies of the cards in JPEG image files if you would like us to
> > send you one or more of them.
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > John Otto
> > Va. Beach VA
> >
> >
> > Robert Perry wrote:
> >
> >> I was told several years ago by Monte Vista management that the only
> >> records they have are listings of what individual [family member]
> >> originally purchased a burial plot. But little or nothing about the
> >> individuals actually buried in those plots. It would be wonderful if ia
> >> group came forward to volunteer to inventory the cemetery, recording all
> >> the tombstone data. I believe there are around 6,000 graves there.
> >>
> >> Robt Perry
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: <>
> >> To: <>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:37 AM
> >> Subject: Monte Vista Park Cemetery
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I'm searching for a book or a web site that gives a listing of the
> >>> burials in
> >>> Monte Vista Park Cemetery in Mercer County, WV. I have family members
> >>> buried
> >>> there. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>>
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