A less probable, though not impossible, reason is that they all died in some sort of accident - I have a whole family who died along with many others when a train derailed on the way back from a wedding in the mid-1850s. This was in South Africa, but it doesn't mean similar things couldn't happen elsewhere.... Sharon Cape Town ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [MARSHALL] Digging For Gold In A Cemetery Plot > Just a thought about the 4 burials on the same day. > > It did happen in some areas that the actual burial did not > take place for some time due to frozen ground and not > being able to dig the graves. > Perhaps that spring day in April was when the ground was > thawed enough to dig? > > Jane > A Virginian living in Florida > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >