A friend's mother had her name carved on the stone with her first husband in MA, then she remarried. She was buried with her second husband in Nova Scotia. Isn't genealogy fun???? Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Haines Sr." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [GFO] So you can't find that person? > Hi all, > What if you find the same person buried in 2 > cemeteries like I did?! I had to wonder if they cut > him in half and buried in him in two places to settle > a family dispute over him or something?! > I went all the way over to Clatskanie, near the > Oregon Coast to the Clatskanie City Hall and finally > found out that the Clatskanie cemetery people list > plot owners and people buried there as one and the > same so you do not have to be dead to appear to be > dead in their records! My Great Granduncle died in > 1921 and his family had him buried in Portland and he > still owns a grave plot in Clatskanie to this day. > Their old records make no distinction as to whether a > person was buried there or if they just bought a plot, > so it appears that he is buried there, and he ended up > being listed as buried there, in a Clatskanie cemetery > index, but he has a grave stone in Rose City Cemetery. > :-] Mystery solved. > Nathan > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >