I've just the past week talked to the caretaker of the Tate Township cemetary here at Bethel,Clermont Co,Oh, and their paper records only mention who purchased the cemetary lot,not those buried within said lot. Could well be the purchaser was buried some other location. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:53:55 -0400 "Delsey Knoechelman" <delseyk@bright.net> writes: > Carol brought up a good point... > <snip from previous question> > > there is one question that i have about the cemetery books ....... > are > they > > a list of only the headstones there or do they also include the > names of > > those buried who did not get a marker ....... > > To by knowledge, our cemetery books most generally only list those > headstones found. But I remember one of the ladies saying that they > actually > looked at Township Cemetery books or other cemetery records to see > if there > were any of the unreadable or missing headstones listed. I will be > sure and > ask next week at our meeting and see if I am right or wrong. > > From personal experience in the Meigs Twp book, my grandfather James > McClanahan (d.1896) is not mentioned. My grandmother remembers his > grave > being there but we can not find one, so it was probable gone in the > 70's. We > could not find any McClanahan grave markers and yet the book gives > some of > his children. Therefore, I don't know if the markers were there or > if they > got the info from another source. > > Thanks, > Delsey Knoechelman > Adams Co. Genealogical Soc., > Vice President & Newsletter Editor > > > Knoechelman Development Group > http://www.knoechelman.com > > > ==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== > Help Instructions at: > http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html > or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net > Donations to Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com makes this all > possible. > Archives: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.