It could be some type of burial insurance from a local funeral home. In this area of southeastern OK the local funeral homes would sell small burial policies that provided for a certain amount to be paid toward burial costs or funeral costs. These were usually only good through the funeral home that sold them. The ones that I am familiar with during the 1960s and 1970s would indicate that you were a member of such and such burial association, which was usually the name of the funeral home where you purchased the burial policy. These small policies were usually in the amount of $200 or so and the individual would pay about $10 a year for them. Jean Masoner Are you researching the MASONER/MASNOR/MASNER surname? Join the MASONER mail list [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mahlon Erickson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [OK-CEM] Burial Info > My experience with burial certificates is that they are somewhat like burial > deeds. It may have been a precurser to the "Perpetual Care" certificates one > can get these days from rural cemetery associations- your "guarantee" that > by paying the appropriate fees the grave will be cared for (mowing, etc). > > I hope this helps....Mahlon Erickson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deda Bown" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:08 PM > Subject: [OK-CEM] Burial Info > > > > I have a copy of a certificate The Idabel Mutual > > Burial Association. Purchased by my g-grandfather in > > 1929. Is this burial insurace? Does anyone know? > > > > Thanks, > > Deda > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > ==== OK-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > If your Ancestors migrated to or through Oklahoma - register them on the > Oklahoma > > Migration Page http://oklahomamigration.homestead.com/OMIndex.html > > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > > > > > > > > ==== OK-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > If your Ancestors migrated to or through Oklahoma - register them on the Oklahoma > Migration Page http://oklahomamigration.homestead.com/OMIndex.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >