I have an odd situation and hope someone can help me. My great grandfather should be buried in Portsmouth. I'd like to know when (and where) he was buried. This is the situation. I have a newspaper clipping which says in part, "BENJAMIN PLUMER PORTSMOUTH, N H, Oct 11-Word has been received here of the death in Sharon, Mass, of Benjamin Plummer, 86, ex-resident of this city. Mr. Plumer was a native of this city and in his younger days was in the grocery business.... The body will be brought here Monday for funeral and Interment." The clipping does not have the year. I have a birthdate from a family bible (I have searched the LDS films of the records for the town of his birth without finding him) which gives a birthdate, and that date and the age reported in the paper give me a death year of 1928. I have other reasons to believe he died in 1928, but recently I found that he is listed as residing with his daughter and son-in-law in the 1930 census. And in that census his age is given as 88 (as it should be if the bible record is correct) two years older than what the clipping says was his age at death. I have had the town clerk in Sharon, MA, where Benjamin resided at the time of his death, do two searches. I have had the town clerk of Norwood, MA do a search (if he went to a hospital it would likely have been there), and I have had the MA state office of vital records do a search, but only to 1930. No death record was found. I know I need to request another search from the MA state records office for 1930 on, but there are weighty reasons to believe Benjamin died in 1928, so I'd like to try for a cemetery record as well. Any suggestions will be appreciated. [I have tried looking for an obituary in Sharon, but there seems to be a gap for those years in the collection of the local paper. ]

I looked it up in an index to Portsmouth Herald obits and it was in the Oct 11, 1930 paper. Bill Teschek Assistant Director Lane Memorial Library 2 Academy Ave. Hampton, NH 03842 603.926.3368 [email protected] > I have an odd situation and hope someone can help me. > > My great grandfather should be buried in Portsmouth. I'd like to know > when (and where) he was buried. > > This is the situation. > > I have a newspaper clipping which says in part, > > "BENJAMIN PLUMER > PORTSMOUTH, N H, Oct 11-Word has been received here of the death in > Sharon, Mass, of Benjamin Plummer, 86, ex-resident of this city. Mr. > Plumer was a native of this city and in his younger days was in the > grocery business.... The body will be brought here Monday for funeral > and Interment." > > The clipping does not have the year. > > I have a birthdate from a family bible (I have searched the LDS films of > the records for the town of his birth without finding him) which gives a > birthdate, and that date and the age reported in the paper give me a > death year of 1928. > > I have other reasons to believe he died in 1928, but recently I found > that he is listed as residing with his daughter and son-in-law in the > 1930 census. And in that census his age is given as 88 (as it should be > if the bible record is correct) two years older than what the clipping > says was his age at death. > > I have had the town clerk in Sharon, MA, where Benjamin resided at the > time of his death, do two searches. I have had the town clerk of > Norwood, MA do a search (if he went to a hospital it would likely have > been there), and I have had the MA state office of vital records do a > search, but only to 1930. No death record was found. > > I know I need to request another search from the MA state records office > for 1930 on, but there are weighty reasons to believe Benjamin died in > 1928, so I'd like to try for a cemetery record as well. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > [I have tried looking for an obituary in Sharon, but there seems to be a > gap for those years in the collection of the local paper. ] > > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > A note re AOL blocking Rootsweb List Mail: > It is important that AOL users know not to ever delete mail from > RootsWeb (or that comes to them through RootsWeb) that gets misdirected > to their spam folder directly FROM the spam folder--move it to the inbox > first by clicking THIS IS NOT SPAM and then delete it. Otherwise it > gets reported to AOL as being spam and RootsWeb is blamed. To read more > and join the > discussion, AOL users are advised to join the AOLers-Rootsweb list: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/AOLers-RootsWeb.html > .................. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

Since Bill finds that the year of Benjamin's death was 1930, then the Mass. VR were already searched for that year - the indexes are in 5-year groups, in this case 1926 through 1930. Two possibilities at the State level, (1) there are rare but important instances of a certificate not getting into the index, but sitting right there in the book. The actual books are arranged roughly chronologically by town. (2) The Mass. State Indexes pre-1976 were typed on manual typewriters and if the typist missed a name, s/he would go back, reinsert the page, put an astericks near the surname and then put an entry at the bottom of the page or at the end of the surname entries. There is also an Additions and Corrections volume for births...but I can't remember if there is one for deaths.... Maybe another lister knows. Finally, if Benjamin was interred in New Hampshire, there might be a burial slip at the Dept. of Health and Vital Statistics office in Concord - and if so, it might give basic death certificate information. Good luck, Melinde ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harlow Chandler" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: [NHROCKIN] Portsmouth burial >I have an odd situation and hope someone can help me. > > My great grandfather should be buried in Portsmouth. I'd like to know > when (and where) he was buried. > > This is the situation. > > I have a newspaper clipping which says in part, > > "BENJAMIN PLUMER > PORTSMOUTH, N H, Oct 11-Word has been received here of the death in > Sharon, Mass, of Benjamin Plummer, 86, ex-resident of this city. Mr. > Plumer was a native of this city and in his younger days was in the > grocery business.... The body will be brought here Monday for funeral and > Interment." > > The clipping does not have the year. > > I have a birthdate from a family bible (I have searched the LDS films of > the records for the town of his birth without finding him) which gives a > birthdate, and that date and the age reported in the paper give me a death > year of 1928. > > I have other reasons to believe he died in 1928, but recently I found that > he is listed as residing with his daughter and son-in-law in the 1930 > census. And in that census his age is given as 88 (as it should be if the > bible record is correct) two years older than what the clipping says was > his age at death. > > I have had the town clerk in Sharon, MA, where Benjamin resided at the > time of his death, do two searches. I have had the town clerk of Norwood, > MA do a search (if he went to a hospital it would likely have been there), > and I have had the MA state office of vital records do a search, but only > to 1930. No death record was found. > > I know I need to request another search from the MA state records office > for 1930 on, but there are weighty reasons to believe Benjamin died in > 1928, so I'd like to try for a cemetery record as well. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > [I have tried looking for an obituary in Sharon, but there seems to be a > gap for those years in the collection of the local paper. ] > > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > A note re AOL blocking Rootsweb List Mail: > It is important that AOL users know not to ever delete mail from > RootsWeb (or that comes to them through RootsWeb) that gets misdirected > to their spam folder directly FROM the spam folder--move it to the inbox > first by clicking THIS IS NOT SPAM and then delete it. Otherwise it > gets reported to AOL as being spam and RootsWeb is blamed. To read more > and join the > discussion, AOL users are advised to join the AOLers-Rootsweb list: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/AOLers-RootsWeb.html > .................. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >