Just got back from the local library where I finished reading microfilm of the Carthage People's Press, Carthage, Missouri for 1872 & 1873. I don't know how I knew this, but I was right. My hunch paid off. There WAS a terrible flood in that area in May and June of 1872. My second great grandfather, William David Spence, received word of his mother's death on July 18, 1872. His sister Milly Catherine Spence Bunch sent him a letter about her death, and the letter was waiting at the Carthage Post Office July 18. (Elizabeth probably died July 15 or 16). The Bunches returned her body to Jasper County, Missouri for burial with her husband Samuel Spence. However, She could not be buried in Moss Springs due to the high water. She was buried in that large unidentified grave I found in Center Cemeter this past May while we were visiting there. When the ground dried out in Moss Springs, Samuel, Daniel and Mary Polly Pewitt were also interred in Center with Elizabeth. I don't know whether the Joneses (Lewis Jones and Milly Catherine Spence Jones) are in Center or in Moss Springs. Milly Catherine Spence Jones died in 1876; her husband died in 1846 or 1847. As I said earlier, that plot is large enough for six graves. But only four may be buried there. Barbara