In a message dated 10/27/03 10:37:13 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I'm glad I was able to help otherwise. Maybe someone else on the list has insight on this as well. Possibly, the babies were buried in the same plot because the families did not have money to buy a separate plot?? If the babies were buried in the same plot, they may have been moved from another location and the family saved money by burying them in one plot. Here in Minnesota it is normal practice to bury one person per grave. I recall my shock when in 1984 my aunt died in Florida and was buried in a VERY deep grave to allow for her husband to be buried in the same grave and still have them be a suitable distance underground. The shock was increased when in fact my uncle died just 3 days later (a broken heart) and so was buried in the same grave 5 days after we buried his wife.Opening that grave again seemed weird to me, but I gather it is common practice as cemetery ground is at a premium there. As to the 11 years time gap. Was any other member of the family buried at that same time? Maybe they decided to move all the family to be close together in one cemetery when another person died. Sometimes it was a matter of where the family lived or a convenient grave site at the time. And later they wanted to "reunite" the family. I wonder if Crystal Lake can shed any light on that. They really are good people to deal with. Jo Hogle

Some times small children were buried on the same grave site, but one on one end, and another on the other end, but never have heard of three in one. But I know of 3 or 4 on a headstone, and would be tightly put together side by side and end to end. And some times if they were removed from another cemetery, all they would find of the remains would be a few bones and they would gather up a little dirt with it and remove to a new location, which would explain why 3 in one gravesite. Karolyn