Some of my best neighbors have been those with a permanent address. I have all my married life lived within site of a cemetery(all over the world). I even seem to select vacation areas with cemeteries. My Grandfather was a lay preacher and grandmother was known for her flowers, so We spent a lot of time at grave sites. My parents were also owners and caretakers of the family Cemetery, now in the fifth generation. And I am the presiding officer. Country ways(USA) still respect and honor these scared sites blessed or not. Our tears of passing and joys of remembering will stay with us as long as we have life. I have found a long probe helps locate long buried markers. Sometimes the application of water to old sandstone markers will give a faint image. The computer can help also, by using grayscale and removing or adding a single tone at a view. Please, while scanning old news, look and record those hints at a burial, send them on to those of us who love putting puzzles together. One needs some idea of location(County/Township/district), and probable family association. Then the old atlases, Roadmaps especially locale ones, Church records, odd sites in a field. We have one that is a mound (Mesa) in the middle (NOW) of a corn field. It is a pre Civil War site and the makers were under about a foot of debris , also nearly 3 feet of brambles and weeds and scrub trees. The farming around it has compressed the soil( and erosion) over four feet. I am sure soil was removed to increase the banks of the near by railroad line, Part of the reason for abandoning it. It is recorded and on file. Bud. -----Original Message----- From: mo-cemeteries-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mo-cemeteries-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vandergriff Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:26 PM To: mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] MO-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 111 To: Elaine in Hollister, Mo. There is my family cemetery on our property. It is located in a field, with no fence or anything such as a sign saying that it is a cemetery. It is just there, in the middle of the field. There are several family members burried there that do not have stones on them. There was no money at the time, and since it was a family cemetery, the other family members knew who was burried there and when they died. So that was all that mattered. The sad part is, that the information never gets recorded or handed down to future generations. So I think you are absolutely right about the reason for not having a stone on a grave. It's so true but yet so sad. Patty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine O'Neill" <elaineoneill1948@gmail.com> To: <mo-cemeteries@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [MO-CEMETERIES] MO-CEMETERIES Digest, Vol 2, Issue 111 > Thank you, Bill for all the wonderful information. I intend to file > this for future reference. > > I have one question, if I may. Don't know if you'll have an answer, > but I'll take that chance. > > What are the odds, in poor, rural areas in the last half of the 19th > century, that persons were buried on family land...no gravestone, no > record anywhere of a burial? I have on in particular I've been > searching for in either Howell or Texas county. The cemetery books > have been checked there is no listing anywhere for her. There are > other members of her family that are equally elusive. I wonder if > they were just buried "out back under the Maple tree" and then when > the family moved on they are left behind and forgotten. > This is the only scenario that makes any sense at this point. > > Thanks for any light you might be able to shed on this sort of situation. > > Elaine O'. > Hollister, MO > On 7/3/07, kimbuc4@juno.com <kimbuc4@juno.com> wrote: > > List members, > > > > For the past several days there have been a number of messages concerning > > the lack of information on burials and tombstones. > > > > I have mentioned this in the past but apparently there are many new > > members. Some basic information about cemeteries, concerns tombstones. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-CEMETERIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message