This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dart Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4281 Message Board Post: My husband's great grandfather, Freeman H. Dart, is buried in Elmwood cemetery in Cedar Springs, Mi.(Kent County). I sent a letter asking if they had any information on his date of buriel. There are no dates on his headstone, it just reads Co. G 54th OH Inf. They assumed that he died in the Civil War and said that their records don't go back that far. My mistake not telling them that he died between 1888 and 1910. So, if I write them again, is it probable that they would have records for those years? Aren't deaths supposed to be recorded by the township and cemetery? Where are the records kept? Mary