Have you checked the Melbourne Library? There is a book there with a list of cemeteries and names on tombstones. Sharp County also has a similar book. There was a ladies' group who went to the cemeteries, I believe in the 1960's and did a lot of work on this. Rose Mary Lankford www.geocities.com/outlaw72532/techie.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <elden@crazymay.com> To: <ARSHARP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 6:58 PM Subject: [ARSHARP] Elder's grave locations at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Sidney > Hi all, > > I'm trying to locate several graves I believe are in the Mount Carmel > Cemetery in Sidney. I've been to the cemetery and searched all over for > headstones but not found all the one's I'm expecting / hoping to find. > There are a lot of broken / missing headstones, so I'm thinking they are > there but just a little lost (for the moment). I'd like to find them and > place markers so they won't be quite so lost in the future. > > So here's where I need some help. Does anyone know who the caretaker for > that cemetery would be - who would hopefully have a map to the location of > the graves for the cemetery? Or maybe you know a local funeral home I > could contact that might take me to this info? > > > For those interested (or incase there are some other Elder descendants out > there), here are some of the one's I'm searching for. If you happen to be > an Elder descendant I'd love to hear from you. > > 1 - Margaret E. Duncan - died about 1899 > 2 - William Bradley Elder - also died about 1899 > 3 - Mary Ann (Danner) Elder - died before 1910 I think > 4 - Mary Frances (Elder) Crownover - died about 1914 > > Mary Frances is a daughter of William B. and Mary A. Elder (who are my > gg-grandparents via daughter Sarah Catherine Elder Williamson). I found 2 > of Mary Frances's sons (Leo & Levi) & her husbands father at the cemetery > as well as another sister Emily Ann (Elder) Story & her husband William. > Margaret Duncan is the first wife of my g-granfather George Washington > Williamson. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~arsharp/cemmtcarNS.html > > Elden > > > > ==== ARSHARP Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Sharp Co., AR list, send only > the word UNSUBSCRIBE ARSHARP-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List to ARSHARP-d-request@rootsweb.com > Arkansas Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcemete/arcem.htm > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >