This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1732.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Mary, Thank you for your reply to my post. I think you are probably right. I don't think the dates given in SSDI can always be relied upon either. I had looked for James and Mary Merry knowing she died Mass. found her, then learned James died 1954 Mass. but SSDI only had a James Merry for 1960 Mass. but curiously I noticed the date (of birth?) in file happened to match date they arrived U.S. so I think she as surviving spouse made a claim for him in 1960 when he would have been 65 had he lived. Does this make sense? Happily I both obits now and thanks to a list reader I also have photo of the grave. Doug