> Does anyone know what ssa means on a tombstone? Example > > Elza R. 22 Sep 1843 - 7 June 1924 ssa Rebecca > > "John & Neva Brigham" <neva@cwis.net> That "ssa" is NOT on the tombstone. You're making a false assumption that threw me off for a while until I realized what it was. It is in a transcription, a reading of a cemetery. It is an abbreviation that means "same stone as." Elza R. 22 Sep 1843 - 7 Jun 1924 is written on the same stone as Rebecca. I presume Rebecca's record is also in the same transcription. Ernest Thode ernestthode@charter.net (Ernest Thode)