From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Jul 7 17:28:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k67NSbjb018973; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:28:37 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k67NSZE4009949 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:28:35 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k67KpEFI030828 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:51:14 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k67KpEU3030827 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:51:14 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k67HugFI030448 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:56:42 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k67KXq0Z014095 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:33:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Fri Jul 7 14:33:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k67KXqjb014086 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:33:52 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao05.cox.net (centrmmtao05.cox.net [70.168.83.79]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k67KXkUn016022 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:33:48 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060707203339.OPWF8328.centrmmtao05.cox.net@DH433L51>; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:39 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com, PALLAS R HOUSER Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:33:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Cemetery Deeds Message-ID: <44AE7EE0.8648.14542AA9@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20060707025752.88438.qmail@web80732.mail.yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I'd presume if people, years ago, had funerals conducted in their homes, there may not have been a burial in a formal cemetery as such. Many were buried on sections of farm land set aside for a graveyard. I'd suggest you look in the court house for the Deed to land of the person you're interested in and then get the description of it to see if there's a statement about a portion of the farm being set aside for the purpose of a graveyard. Check for the county where the people lived you're interest in and ask at the State House for the General Highway Department of Transportation map. I don't know which state you're wanting but a long time ago I wrote to the capital of Kansas at Topeka and bought maps for all 105 counties in the state. At that time (20 yrs or more ago) they were only 10 cts. ea. I know they've gone up considerably in price. They have a lot of detail - showing rural school houses, farms, cemeteries including those abandoned on farmland, power lines, highways, roadways etc. They come in several size maps. Ours are 1/2" equals 1 square mile. They're great when you're trying to locate places that are not on a regular highway map. These are available thru the Departments of Transportation at the State capital. I did the same thing for the states of Iowa and Missouri. juanita > Years ago when people passed away they were not viewed in a funeral > home, they were laid out in there homes, so if a cemetery does not > have an office in a lot of the states and there was no funeral home > involved where do you get copies of cemetery deeds? I would appreciate > any help with this. I can be contacted at p_houser@sbcglobal.net. > Thanks!!! > Pallas Houser >