I have a story pertaining to my great grandfather. This was in Denver, CO but I think the situation could happen anywhere. The surname is Thompson. We knew where most of the family was buried - Crown Hill Cemetery. We had his sons, wife, etc. We started looking in 1962. Crown Hill told us many times they had no Thomas Thompson buried there. We had photos taken of him as late as about 1915. Then the 1920 census came out, and he was in it. The 1925 state census showed her as a widow. My father, who was born in 1905, always said he didn't know what happened to his Grandpa. Through a lookup volunteer just recently (keep in mind 39 years of searching), it was found that the Denver 1921 City Directory not only listed residents, but those who died in that year. There was a Thomas Thompson listed, no address. Through the dedication of that wonderful volunteer she found a short obit for him. With that date in hand, I called Crown Hill Cemetery (this was probably the 20th contact with them over the years). Within two minutes, the man was reading the entry to me. He had been buried in the single graves section, possibly the paupers graves section back then or possibly the infectious epidemic section. No stone. Anyway, bottom line is that without the exact date of death and burial, Crown Hill had not been willing to search even though they repeatedly said they had searched. Good lesson here to keep pursuing all the alternative sources such as city directories. Mary Wyoming >Hello all: > >I have run into a situation where I know where an entire family is buried, >except for the father (James O'Meara). I can't find him anywhere in the >county. His wife and son are buried at Lycurgus, but I find no evidence of >his burial anywhere in Allamakee County. On another branch, I have a wife >who died. (Hannah Garvin/Gavin McLaughlin). The husband remarried. I can >find him, his second wife, and several of his children, but no sign of the >first wife. > >I realize it is possible that the father, above, moved to another county, >but he would have been leaving his wife behind at an elderly age. I also >realize that that first wife may have died elsewhere and been buried >elsewhere, but I find no indication of that, either. These seem the least >likely. what seems more likely is that record-keepers were inconsistent or >inadequate. > >So has anybody else had ancestors who vanished? > >Kathy > >McLAUGHLIN, O'MEARA, DANAHER, FENELON, RYAN > > Also interested in Moroney, Holohan/Holohan/Wholahan, McGuire, Shea and >Shields > > >==== IALEE Mailing List ==== >Family History Resource Page >http://w3.trib.com/~dsaban/family.htm > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >