Your info on Van Buren funeral homes was interesting. In Muskogee we found the old records from a funeral home to be very well kept and useful, although in part a hand-me-down from an earlier firm--also the cemetery records were in great shape, and supplied a number of unknowns. Can you tell me, which of the funeral homes in Van Buren were in business in 1902, and might have been involved in the burial of my gGrandfather John Speed Jones? Of course, up in the woods at 'Belmont' it may well have been just a local-carpenter-coffin funeral, who knows? His widow, Mariam Rose Jones, lived into the teens and is apparently also buried up at the Bolton, with matching Masonic monuments, but his elder son, my grandfather Philos Stratton Jones, was then a prosperous lawyer on a federal salary, at that time living well off the RR, but not far away, at Whitefield in IT, and I have always assumed, without specific info, that he had a large hand in burial arrangements. This is just he kind of missing detail I found in funeral-home and cemetery-office records over in Muskogee. The next place that Philos lived, still a Dawes-Act judge, was Wilburton down in Latimer Country, OK, which had a bad tornado pass through some years ago. Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.