This Ray/Maloney grave is probably the one. There may have been 2 graves together but Calvary gave us the list of names. The grave was bought for John Ray in 1864 by 2 of his sons. Then as folks died, they were buried there. Sad situtations but we were very proud to give them a nice headstone. Janice in North Florida > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:45:10 -0800 (PST) > From: Judith Mason <judith.mason@ameritech.net> > Subject: Re: [IL-COOK-CHICAGO] many bodies in grave > To: il-cook-chicago@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <942413.56062.qm@web80604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I recall Helen Sclair the "Cemetery Lady" saying > the cemetery with the most burials in one grave (not plot) > was at Calvary Cemetery with 10 (maybe 12). > ? > Judie Mason > Chicago > > --- On Thu, 2/26/09, bessinger janice > <janmelb@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: bessinger janice <janmelb@yahoo.com> > Subject: [IL-COOK-CHICAGO] many bodies in grave > To: il-cook-chicago@rootsweb.com > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 9:13 AM > > > My Malone/Moloney/Ray/Rea family found a grave in Calvary > with 21 bodies. > Actually it was probaly a couple of gravesites. The oldest > was buried in 1864 > and the latest was in 1933. There was no marker of any > kind visible so the > extended family raised the money and placed a nice but > simple marker with the > surnames. When it was being placed at the grave, as they > dug down, they found a > limestone marker with the surnames but no dates. > > BTW, many of the folks who contributed had met through the > genealogy on the > web. We found second, third cousins, etc. from Michigan to > Florida to > California. It has been fun. Good luck to all. Janice in > North Florida > looking for Illinois info on: > Maloney/Moloney > Ray/Rea > Foley > Caulfield > Thomson/Thompson > Czekala > Pawlak >