In a message dated 2/2/2004 2:20:46 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I have just learned that a family I am researching is buried in a Kokomo > cemetery. The recent death record I received did not say which cemetery. > His name is Daniel Russell and his wife is Emma Brouse Russell. She is the > one that is originally from Kokomo, so they may be buried with her parents. > They would be the Brouse family. He died in 1914. She died between > 1910-1914. Any ideas on how I might locate which cemetery? Thanks! > > Sandra > So.Portland, Maine > Telephone the cemeteries. I had family buried in Kokomo and didn't know where. I got a list of Kokomo cemeteries on the Howard County rootsweb pages. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inhoward/data/ceminfo.html I called the Kokomo Library (http://www.kokomo.lib.in.us/genealogy/)and one of the librarians looked up phone numbers for me and told me which cemeteries were most likely to have my family members in them given their death dates. The cemeteries I called had people in their offices willing to look in their records for me. It turned out that my family was buried in two cemeteries in Kokomo: Crown Point and Memorial Park. The people who helped me told me everything that was written in the record about my four family members in both cemeteries. In addition, the people at Crown Point looked up the names of the other people buried in the same plot with the children in my family. Those folks turned out to be my great-grandfather's second wife's family; she was my step-great-grandmother. (No one knows where my great-grandfather's mother was buried; she died before he was eight and remains invisible.) And the plot was originally jointly owned by my great-grandfather and his father-in-law, but my great-grandfather apparently sold his half ownership to his father-in-law. He has a child and three grandchildren buried in the plot, but he, his wife, son, and daughter-in-law are buried at Memorial Park. (Strange, huh?) You might want to check out some online sites at the Kokomo Public Libarary ( http://www.kokomo.lib.in.us/genealogy/#databases). There is a good bit of cemetery information there, including a list of "inhabitants" of the Crown Point Cemetery. I found, however, that not all of the people buried in the cemetery are on that list. At least not all of mine are. If you find your family is in Crown Point but one of them is missing from the library's list, call the cemetery. The other database I found really useful which you can also link to from that page is the Rich Funeral Home data base.