Hi Wilma, Lynda and I responded at about the same time before and it may happen again. The book was published in 1996. The index is alphabetical, but the tombstone inscriptions are by Block number. If you know one person who has a tombstone, then the others buried nearby should be listed nearby. You probably have the two Pearson listings. Block 23 -- Pearson, James Roy, 27 Mar 1890 - 15 Feb 1920 Names gathered from old newspapers -- Pearson, John (child) died July 1900 John is probably your uncle who died young. His name is listed alphabetically because he is in the list of names from old newspapers and the newspaper did not give the block number so they are just listed alphabetically. The book does not have block numbers for these. With whom was he buried? James Roy Pearson did not die until 1920, so perhaps it is another surname. James Roy Pearson is the next to last person listed for block 23. Only Bessie M. Parker is listed after him. The few before him are William D. and Catherine E. King, and Della Kastl. I cannot tell from the listing whether there are unmarked graves on either side of James Roy Pearson or whether these stones are next to each other. On the map in the book, block 20-26, and B and C are not divided into lots like blocks 1-19 are. Even though the lots are shown on the map, the tombstone inscriptions are not identified by lot only by block. Ross Cameron >>> [email protected] 06/09/03 12:57PM >>> Thanks, Lynda I am interested in who all may be buried in a particular plot. According to a letter my Grandmother wrote in 1900, 6 people could be buried in the plot. I know of 2, one with a marker and one without. The one without, only because I grew up knowing he was buried in that plot. It is along story, but suffice it to saa, my Grandparents were moving from Pierce City , their youngest son, at the time had died a few months before and is buried in the unmarked grave. On the trip, my father was born and his mother died a few days later. In the letter she mentions she hoped no one died on the trip and would have to come back to Pierce City to be buried if they did. I still to this day, do not know where my Grandmother is buried. I had spoken with a lady with the Historical Society, and unless this particular book has been published within the last 2 years, it did not have but the one marked grave listed, and the listings were aplhabetical, and not by location. Will try again to catch Hollis the next time I am through Pierce City. Thanks again, Wilma

Ross, The infant is indeed correct. That is Thomas Obadiah Pearson,b. April 1899, died July 25, 1900, child of John A. & Mattie (Cordell ) Pearson. The marked grave is the niece of my grandfather, (Laura) Ella Clark b. Oct 1882, died Oct 04, 1900 . Her mother was a sister of my Grandfather, Sarah (Sallie) Pearson Clark Keith. Wilma