Usually the date when the age is listed is the death date. If that is the case here, he would have been born 5 Jul 1855. Can't explain the rest of it. Look at the Smith entries on the same page with that format: death date and then age. Bonnie Burkhardt bb86it at wideopenwest. dot com Contribute an index of the obituaries from your newspaper to http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: [OHMonroe] William Hendrix? > We have a question about the following entry. > > On page 38 of Perry Township Gleanings and Cemetery Inscriptions, Row > fourteen of Greenbrier Cemetery is the following entry: > > Hendrix, William b. 10Nov 1884 A. 29y4m5d s/o H. B. & C. > > Who is this? I had thought it was their son William, but we just received > the death certificate for William G. Hendrix, born March 20, 1854, died June > 2, 1929 in Jefferson Co., OH. He is the son of Henry B. Hendrix and Charlotte > Cline. > > Can someone go out and look at the stone again and see if there is a > mistake? I looked through the death records for Monroe Co and there is no William > Hendrix in the 1884 listing of deaths. Now if that is a birth it can't be > from Henry and Catharine as she would have been too old. Like I said any ideas > of who this person is? > > Jerilyn > > > ==== OHMONROE Mailing List ==== > You can read and post queries at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Monroe > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 5/20/05