I'd like a dollar for every time I've had to give the reasons why grannie or gandpa doesn't have a marker on their grave. I've actually considered recording standard answers to questions like this. I'm not going to repeat them all now but, please people, take off your 2010 spectacles and look at life in the old days as it was then. Do your homework and read, read, read. The perfect answer to that marker question is sitting before me now. As Deb has mentioned, we have access ( and now you do too!) to records that most people haven't seen since they were filed away many years ago. One such set of records is correspondence between various people, organizations, businesses and the clerk of the town. I am excluding the names in this letter. Penetang May 12 1920 Mr. Charlie Ellis Dear Sir Will you please bring attention at the next council meeting if it is possible to help me carry on the expenses of _________'s burial which amount to 64 dollars for the undertaker Any amount you can give me will be well excepted. Yours truly ___________Jr. The writer is a close relative of the deceased, the year is 1920 just before the Great Depression set in, written from a small community where people have often had to struggle to put food on the table. You can research the value of $64 in 1920 to today's currency. Do you think the undertaker got paid? Do you think the deceased has a lovely granite marker on his grave? Pam