From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jul 25 09:48:20 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 k6PFmKjb010903; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:48:20 -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 k6PFmHG1029054 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:48:17 -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 k6PD9rFI020983 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:09:53 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6PD9rP1020982 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:09:53 -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 k6PBhfFI020747 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:43:41 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6PELsvD031229 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:21:54 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Tue Jul 25 08:21:54 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 k6PELsjb031218 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:21:54 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao02.cox.net (centrmmtao02.cox.net [70.168.83.82]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6PELpRU002953 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:21:52 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060725142146.UMAX22014.centrmmtao02.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:21:46 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:21:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44C5E2AC.7022.12AE9BA8@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <011d01c6af99$58ed1f70$f54eeb04@Desktop> 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: CEMETERY PLOT LOCATIONS Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Reading Shirley's e-mail about finding funeral home records made me think about the time we were searching for my gr grandfather's gravesite in Colorado. After talking with the funeral home director in the town where I thought my ancestor had died, I found the records of the mortuary (1929) were retained by the former owner and were stashed in his home....under his bed (the person told me!) When I went to the court house and asked for his death record I was told they didn't have any information. I asked to personally scan the sheets myself and found his name ... misspelled. The clerk in the office didn't seem perturbed that it was not correct, even though I showed proof my gr grandfather and I had the same last names. I asked if she couldn't at least put a note on the death record that the name "may" be different. She ignored me. When I asked about another relative's burial site in Missouri, I could only find reference to it when I looked into the settlement of his estate. He didn't have much to dispose of but probate had been filed and in the papers were the final expenses of the deceased....including the cost of his casket and the transporting of it by horse and carriage to Iowa and to the IOOF cemetery. juanita > The 'trick' in finding a cemetery plot location, who> owns or owned it, can be a hassle! > The funeral home may have been sold several times, but the funeral > records are usually retained/maintained by the new owners. > > cost of the funeral, the cost of the coffin > and all the 'extras' - lining, pillow, etc., that were in the coffin > of the deceased, down to the cost of the horses and burial carriage! Shirley>