This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Graves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IKB.2ACE/1795.1 Message Board Post: Wendy, Here is what I found concerning your David R. Graves. I could not find anything concernig May Graves.Hope this helps. Walter Springfield Republican December 24, 1918 The funeral of David R. Graves was held from the chapel of the Paxson Undertaking establishment yesterday morning followed by burial in Greenlawn cemeter. The decedent was 82 years old and was one of the oldest residents in Springfield. He was an old soldier and John Matthews post No. 69, G.A.R. furnished an escort and conducted the burial services.