I recently posted the question below to the readers of the group. I received several interesting replies and thank everyone for the information I have posted the replies below my question for your interest. The names do not show to protect the privacy of the sender. All of the listed replies were sent to me personally. By the way the index for the cemetery is http://www.rootsweb.com/~iasioux/cemetery.htm#alpha-index it's a cemetery in Sioux County Iowa. Thanks again for the responses. Hello everyone, I have found the grave via the internet of one of my ancestors. I have not visited the site yet. It's a graveyard in northwestern Iowa. It appears the person's name I am looking for appears on the backside of an unrelated as far as I know) person's headstone. I think the headstone lies in the vicinity of the other family members of that area. I can't be sure because I haven't been there. Anyone else run into this type of headstone marking? Just curious. Responses: 1. Mark, I understand that now a day, parents are having their children names engraved on back of the headstone. Some times even the birth date and married names of daughters. I think that would be a great idea for our descendents to locate more then just our headstone. 2. At a cemetery in MO I found my great-great-great-grandmother's headstone markings on the back of her husband's (my great-great-great-grandfather) headstone. It was an upright slab type of stone. 3. Mark, I think your "as far as I know" is the important aspect. I have seen several obelisk (Washington Monument) type stones with people with different last names on different sides. Usually they are daughter's married names. One in the Lawrenceville cemetery in Boone County was a son in law in the family who died long before his wife. She remarried two more times and was not buried there. She died in Washington state. When you see the cemetery the relationships may be more apparent. 4. Hi Mark, My guess is that it is NOT an unrelated person's headstone. I don't think I have once seen the use of a headstone or plot for unrelated people! Keep digging (figuratively, of course!) for a connection. Write to the sexton of the cemetery, or local library, and see if they can determine the relationship. Mark S. Ellis R.T. (R), (MR), (CT) ProView Functional Analyst Cerner Corporation Mail Drop W0721 2800 Rockcreek Parkway Kansas City, MO 64117 Phone 816-201-3527 Fax 816-936-9527 email [email protected]