Georgia, If you have not found a tombstone inscription for him in the published Lawrence County Tombstone Inscription volumes, then I doubt that there is a stone still remaining. The volumes are not perfect, but they are very good. At that early date I believe that all of the burials would have been on family property. I don't know of any "established" cemeteries that early. Some of those "family burial grounds" eventually became cemeteries. But most burial sites that early are probably "lost." Burials did not have to be recorded anywhere, etc., and this area wast pretty sparsely settled frontier at that time. And many stones for deaths this early were erected many years later, long after the burial. The earliest burial I know of off the top of my head is Abigail (Smith) Williams, wife of Judge John Williams who died 8 Aug. 1833. She was buried on (or near) the family farm at the time (It was part of Greene Co., then). This became Roberts Cemetery. My g-g-g-grandparents Baugh were buried on the Baugh farm which is still owned by the Baugh family and has never been out of the family, but no one today knows where the stones are. In fact family have been looking for their stones for probably 50 years or more, but nobody alive even then knew the burial places. The only likely record for burials that early would be the tombstones themselves if they have survived. Unless, of course, the family kept some record. Unfortunately there are many graves from even the later 1800s that no one can find today. Either no engraved tombstone was erected or it is lost. Often times, a large fieldstone, tree, or other physical marker was used, but if the information did not get passed down through the family, then it is lost. There are many instances of newspaper obituaries, etc., which state that a person was buried in a specific cemetery but there is no extant tombstone. Just last week I found a reference to someone who died in 1891 and was buried beside her parents at the Mt. Vernon City Cemetery. However, there are apparently no stones for either her or her parents. Her father was a former postmaster of Mt. Vernon and her husband was the editor of the Aurora Gazette when she died. Surely, this family would have had stones, but they do not exist now. Ross Cameron >>> "James Reese" <reesr@ix.netcom.com> 04/21 10:56 AM >>> Ross, Where were early Mt.Vernon burials located? I am trying to locate a child William E. Whaley, d Sept 5, 1844. The family lived in Mt. Vernon as early as 1842. Mt. Vernon did not become the county seat until 1845. Are there any records covering that period. Would the answer be Barry county? If so, where? Thanks, Georgia