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    1. [NYOnonda] burial practices
    2. hi im just responding to the news report i have not seen the news report. i have only heard about on the site . A couple of years ago i set out to do something for my father that he had been wanting to do for a very long time almost 40 years or more. when he was married to his first wife they had a still born child a son times were very tough and he could not afford a stone or really a service for this infant the only thing he did do was buy a plot and a coffin and the baby was put in the ground he says the same day the baby was born his first wife a few years later died and then my father meet and married my mother and had me etc. all my life on memorial day we have gone to st marys and put graves on my ancester we have a family plot of four graves that have 6 people on them because my aunt and uncle have there grandchildren on top of them. the grandchildren died years after them but the cemetary were very generous in allowing the grieving parents of these children to be placed in safety with there grandparents. as for the other grave it is up on the children hill that no matter hoe many times i go there seeing all those little graves of children and believe me there are alot my eyes can not help but fill with tears but every year we go there and put flowers behind a grave that did not have my brothers name but only the memory of a man in his grieve remembers buring his child as i got older i saw it as my duty as a loving daughter to ease this mans grieve over not being able to put a stone on his sons grave so i set about doing just that i called st mary cemetary and the only thing i could tell them was that his name was Mathew Hemingway and that he died in the early 1960's because my father is much older now and does not remember as much the very next day st mary's called me back very nice people told me that they found Mathew they in turn told me the day and year he was buried which was in 1960 they then told me his parents names which were very correct and not info that i had sh! ared with them .i thank them and about a year later i took my father up to the grave to show him the stone on his son grave after all these years it gave him some peace and surprise surprise the stone was in the exact spot that we had been puting flowers for all of these years so i have to say that st mary's as a very great office personnal and if feel very strongly that if those two baby's are together the are there for a reason and not anything else sorry if i took up to much space but i felt it was a story that had to be told yours, donna barnes ' loving sister of mathew

    02/19/2004 03:44:02