I have discovered through obits that two of my great aunts who were buried in the late 1950s in cemeteries have no stones and the cemetery caretakers had no record of them in their cemeteries. Additionally, from the obits wherein the name of the cemetery was detailed I learned of the name of the funeral homes involved. Their funeral home records confirmed everything in the obits, but no one could tell me where they were buried in the cemeteries in question. It is perhaps instructive to look more closely at family friends even decades after the loved one's passing. Unrelated names can pop up and you may discover as I did that someone once paid for the "perpetual care" and the name of that someone usually reveals one of their relatives' cemetery plots, and from there you can deduce where your loved one is probabl buried. -----Original Message----- From: Beverley Rittwage [mailto:brittw5188@rogers.com] Sent: September 17, 2004 9:10 AM To: CA-ONT-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ON-CEM] Arthur Rittwage 1912 Hello list, could anyone tell me if it was possible that people were burying people in their backyards still in 1912? I have searched many area cemeteries for my great Uncle Arthur Rittwage and haven't had any results yet. His parents, brother and brother's wife are in the Woods cemetery Northumberland, nearest to where they resided, but I cannot find his. If anyone knows of the laws regarding having to bury people in cemeteries could you please inform me? Thankyou. Beverley ==== CA-ONT-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== READ THE TAGLINES! BEFORE you ask for a lookups check out http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~silentguardians/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237