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

This by no means is an "old" scenario--it has been found since the times of westward migrations. Often the surviving spouse purchases a double headstone, intended to be buried next to each other. Through the years, life changes, and we have become a very mobile society. The surviving spouse moves to Arizona, or moves near the children on the East Coast, or re-marries for as many years as the first time. When this second spouse dies, it would be very expensive to transport the body across the county and by then maybe the family has re-established in another state anyway. Thus, this person is buried near their place of death, with a tombstone, even though they have a tombstone with the first spouse. Just having a tombstone does not GUARANTEE that this is the spot of a person's burial! And, in today's society with so may cremations, "buried" definitely does not always mean there is a coffin and corpse below. Nedra At 01:53 PM 11/22/2004, Nathan Haines Sr. wrote: > 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 Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist [email protected] Registrar, Oregon State Society DAR Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, [email protected] CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. http://www.bcgcertification.org/