HI, Wanda, This is probably stuff you already know. I did a quick search on Ancestry.com of Quaker records and there are Crums in the Quaker records. If you don't have access to Ancestry, I'll look again for Christiana. There is a book of old Belmont County tombstsone inscriptions. I don't have access to it but I think there are people on the list who do. A site called sampubco.com has some Belmont County wills. But if your ancestor turns out to be Quaker, you probably will have more luck with Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Vols 4 & 5. But I don't know that there were many records in Belmont County 1830 and before. I rather doubt you could find a death certificate, but maybe someone on the list knows better than I do. Jae On Oct 14, 2006, at 2:47 AM, WKALBRECHT@aol.com wrote: > Looking for my great great-great-great Grandmother, Christiana Crum > that died > in Barnesville, Belmont, Ohio in 1831, Where would I find death > records or > find out where she is buried? > Thanks Wanda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBELMON- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

No Ohio deaths were officially recorded before 1867, at the state or county level, so the only place to find a death 'record' in this timeframe would be in extant church records...or, as an obituary in a local newspaper. However, in those days obits were not put into the paper as they are today, and had to be paid for by the family, if they wanted one printed...so, many folks didn't bother doing so. I looked in Hinshaws Quaker Encyclopedia, for a Christina Crumb/Crumm/Crum, and none was found. This record includes many Ohio mm records. The only Crums I find in any of these records appear in the Upper Springfield Meeting, located in Columbiana Co...the earliest one is in 1869, a Laura, dau of C.C. and L.C. (just using initials sure isn't very helpful, is it!) The next ones are in the mid to late 1880s. So, I don't see any reason to think your Crums were Quakers. I checked THE STORY OF BARNESVILLE, by Shephard, and the only Crum mentioned is a Harley, who operated a Cigar factory in the 1930s. There is no mention of the surname Crum, any spelling, in McKelvey's CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY OHIO. Sandra " I did a quick search on Ancestry.com of Quaker records and there are Crums in the Quaker records. If you don't have access to Ancestry, I'll look again for Christiana. But if your ancestor turns out to be Quaker, you probably will have more luck with Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Vols 4 & 5. But I don't know that there were many records in Belmont County 1830 and before. I rather doubt you could find a death certificate, but maybe someone on the list knows better than I do." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/470 - Release Date: 10/10/2006