Wow!! Big applause to Jim Garrity! Nice one. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Barbara Kiersh <barkie@bellsouth.net>wrote: > A big thank you to Jim and everyone for their suggestions. Not only is my > great grandmother Jeanetta Lazrus buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery but > she's also buried with her grandson Rudolph Kern. He was a stillborn and > died the same year as Jeanetta - 1887. The woman in the cemetery office was > very nice and very helpful. I didn't know anything about this child. Her > daughter Charlotte married Rudolph R. Kern and they had a son Rudolph Jr. > born in 1888. I thought Rudolph Jr. was their first child. I think it's a > little creepy to give a new baby the same name as a previous still born > baby. But I guess it was the custom. > > Barbara > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >