At 11:58 AM 7/14/99 EDT, you wrote: >Anyone care to put on your thinking caps and tell me what my next step should >be? > >I have a copy of my great grandfather's naturalization papers. According to >them, he was a widower when he came over here. I saw a copy of the passenger >list at FHC and there was only him and a brother listed (if I copied the >passenger list, I have lost it by now...). I have never (20+ years of >digging) been able to find out anymore about his wife (my great-grandmother), >other than her birthdate (no burial or death date in Scotland that I can find >without hiring someone, which I can't afford.). Several years after he came >to the states, his mother and another brother came over and brought his 2 >sons. I bought the Benld cemetery book where most of his branch of the >family is buried. In the book it lists great grandpa (Wm Robertson) buried >with his second wife and underneath it lists the name of Mary (this one I am >looking for). Sez he is the son of S & E (not Mary) I see in the cem book the name of a wife probably first wife Mary (Cooper) died 1919, m. 1903. and second wife probably - it just sez wife Alice Mae (with dates) daughter of John and Effie Chancellor. I don't see a listing for a mother Mary unless I am reading wrong. Think you are on the right track for getting death sheet and then getting death certs if you want them. They should be available for these years. So I wrote to the cemetery (just addressed it to Benld City >Cemetery Board for lack of anything else) and asked if there were any further >records there about why Mary's name would be listed and if there was a record >of her being buried there. And in the back of my mind I am thinking I can't >see anyone spending the money to bring her body from Scotland. While we were >home 4th of July weekend, we stopped at the cemetery and there is no mention >of Mary on the same tombstone with William and Alice (the 2nd wife). I have >never received an answer to the letter I wrote (not a big surprise - probably >lost by now). To futher complicate matters, the cemetery book says Mary died >in 1919. William's Petition for Naturalization clearly states (dated 1915) >that Mary is deceased! So, did Willie lie on his petition, and if he did why >would anyone need to? Or the date in the cemetery book is wrong. But if she >is not buried in Benld, why would her name be in the records? I am waiting >on a death index sheet now for all the Mary ROBERTSONs. > >I would really apprecitate any input... > >Thanks, >Pam > > >==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== >To look at 1850 Macoupin County, IL census - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/1850census/index.htm > >