> I am searching for the grave of my great grandmother Nettie May Hanly Horton. She was born around 1880 in Franklin county to Sarah Elizabeth (Wideman) Hanly and George William Hanly. I have found her on the 1880 census in Franklin County as a 5 month old baby. She had a younger sister Elsa or Elsie Hanly also born in Missouri but was in Oregon and married to Ira Langley by 1903. > > Nettie May (Hanly) Horton married Gentry Joseph Horton (although the place is unknown despite diligent search) somewhere before 1901 when George Clark Horton (my great uncle) was born in Bonne Terre Missouri. Then in September 1903, some say the 23rd and some say the 29th, my grandmother Vera Ethel Horton was born. Her mother Nettie May Hanly Horton died in childbirth in Bonne Terre Missouri. > > I have been unable to find any birth or death record for either. Nettie's husband Gentry Joseph Horton, his mother, and several siblings are buried in Bonne Terre Cemetery. I cannot figure out why she is not buried in his family cemetery but she is not. I have several questions that I think would help. > > 1. Does anyone know the burial place of Nettie May (Hanly) Wideman? > > 2. Does anyone know the burial place of her parents Sarah Elizabeth (Wideman) Hanly or George William Hanly? > > 3. Knowing that there are many "Widemans" in the St. Francois County and the Jefferson County area, does anyone know the burial place of Nettie's grandparents Malissa Caroline (studdard) Wideman or Jacob E. Wideman? I am thinking that maybe Nettie might buried in a Wideman family plot since her mother was a Wideman. > > 4. Does anyone know of any physicians or midwifes records that exist from 1903. > > 5. Nettie's (who would have been 20 by this time) sister Elsie appears as a 15 year old on the 1900 Jefferson County Census living with her Maternal (mothers brother) uncle Jacob Leroy Wideman (Uncle Lee). Since she was alone without her parents in 1900 and then in Baker Count Oregon getting married by 1903, I am wondering if possibly Netties parents didn't go to Oregon somewhere prior to 1900. Nettie May would have probably been with her husband by then. Does anyone know of any Widemans or Hanlys going out west to seek their fortune? Is this within the Gold Rush Years? > > 6. Does anyone have any other ideas that I am over looking? > > I will greatly appreciate any and all help that anyone can give. > > Anita > >