This isn't exactly about KELLEY research, but it's certainly interesting. Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, may be one of the largest cemeteries in the world and it has been in existence since the early 1800's. The practice of burying family members one on top of the other is not as unusual as might be thought. In my mother's family, several deeds exist for family burial plots in Calvary Cemetery in New York. When I wrote to obtain information about family members, I found that I could order a list of interments for each plot. From the 1850s up to the present time, the same plots and the same graves have been used again and again. The lists of interments provided an overwhelming amount of information and included names and data about people I was researching, and some I had never heard about--which required more research... A story that my grandmother told was quite revealing. She said that when they dug the grave to bury her grandfather, nothing remained from her four-year-old sister's burial (from only four years before)...except the brass nameplate from the casket. Paula Paula Kelley Ward San Antonio, Texas pward@express-news.net "Genealogy is the art of confusing the dead and irritating the living.” ---------- On Wednesday, August 26, 1998 10:46 PM, Alli <aka2@magiclink.com> said: > > Interesting info. One the subject of "stacking" the casket's? I don't know > the exact location or name of the cemetary, but there is at least one > family down in Phoenix, Az. that has already been doing this same thing. My > x-brother-in-law was telling me that a friend of his already knows exactly > where he'll be buried when his time comes-on top of his parents & quite a > few generations back are. > Of course--if they "run out of room" in his area--they'll have a whole > bunch located in one plot to move, should save some time. >