That is him. Thanks Bill!! Darin > > There was a one room country school in section 5, S.W. 1/4 of Prairie Creek > Twp, which is west of Emden about 6 miles. It was located on the north side > of the country road. Across the road to the South, is a cemetery, known as > Green Hill. There is a Charles Campbell (no dates) buried there, along side > Hassel E. Campbell (born 1894 - died 3/12/1985). It appears the wrong cemetery > name was given on the death certificate. > > Bill Detmers, Genealogist > Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society > > > > > In a message dated 7/1/2005 6:41:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > According to the USGS there is no Cream Ridge Cemetery in the state of > Illinois. Closest one I could find with Ridge in the name is Grassy Ridge in > McLean County. That would be feasible for Emden. > > Latitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map > Name > 40.4067031 -89.002856 402424N > 0890010W Bloomington West > > Cheryl Rothwell > [email protected] > Logan County ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > Central IL Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb > Clark, Downing, Harding, Lucas, et al > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILLOGAN] Cream Ridge Cemetery in Logan county? > > I am looking for the location of Cream Ridge Cemetery in Logan County. I > have not heard of it until I saw it listed on a death certificate today. > Charles Campbell from Emden is suppose to be buried there according to his > death certificate. Can anyone help? > > Thank you! > Darin > > > > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Logan County List if you are in mail mode, send to > [email protected] If you are receiving messages in the digest > mode, send to [email protected] >

There is a lesson in how to overcome obstacles in genealogical research in this exchange. I saw Cheryl's note about "Cream Hill" and sent her a message about place names in the U.S. and those listed in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Index System, which is on line. After sending off that note, I got to thinking about death certificates in general and the types of errors you often find on them. Usually these forms are completed in times of stress and informants are not always clear-headed or clear spoken. For example, the form usually contains a question concerning the maiden name of the deceased. Too often, the person filling out the form is asking the questions on the form of a relative of the deceased and skips down the form quickly. When he gets to the question about the mother, he asks: "Mother's maiden name?" That's why encounter death certificates that have the maiden name of the mother of the INFORMANT on them and not the maiden name of the DECEASED! Another error you encounter is the "sounds like" error. In mulling over what the cemetery's name could have been, I thought of "Green" instead of "Cream" and was about to write Cheryl again to suggest that perhaps there was a cemetery called Green Ridge or some such. Procrastination caused me to miss being thought of as a brilliant analyst by about t-h-a-t much! <g> The lesson, in case my ramblings were too obtuse, is that when information on a document doesn't seem to fit other known facts, brain-storm it about and see if you can think of what was INTENDED instead of what actually written on the paper. And often names like Hill, Valley, Ridge, Grove, Park, etc., are confused with one another in place names. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [ILLOGAN] Cream Ridge Cemetery in Logan county? > That is him. Thanks Bill!! > > Darin > > > > > > There was a one room country school in section 5, S.W. 1/4 of Prairie Creek > > Twp, which is west of Emden about 6 miles. It was located on the north side > > of the country road. Across the road to the South, is a cemetery, known as > > Green Hill. There is a Charles Campbell (no dates) buried there, along side > > Hassel E. Campbell (born 1894 - died 3/12/1985). It appears the wrong cemetery > > name was given on the death certificate. > > > > Bill Detmers, Genealogist > > Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 7/1/2005 6:41:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > According to the USGS there is no Cream Ridge Cemetery in the state of > > Illinois. Closest one I could find with Ridge in the name is Grassy Ridge in > > McLean County. That would be feasible for Emden. > > > > Latitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map > > Name > > 40.4067031 -89.002856 402424N > > 0890010W Bloomington West > > > > Cheryl Rothwell > > [email protected] > > Logan County ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > Central IL Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb > > Clark, Downing, Harding, Lucas, et al > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:27 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [ILLOGAN] Cream Ridge Cemetery in Logan county? > > > > I am looking for the location of Cream Ridge Cemetery in Logan County. I > > have not heard of it until I saw it listed on a death certificate today. > > Charles Campbell from Emden is suppose to be buried there according to his > > death certificate. Can anyone help? > > > > Thank you! > > Darin > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Logan County List if you are in mail mode, send to > > [email protected] If you are receiving messages in the digest > > mode, send to [email protected] > > > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Logan County List if you are in mail mode, send to [email protected] If you are receiving messages in the digest mode, send to [email protected] > >