In a message dated 3/3/03 1:54:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, DRU2250@aol.com writes: > What does "Consort of" mean? I have seen this on tombstones and they have > had children. Thanks, Dru > Dru, Being an old New Englander, I have come across this many times. Almost always, the term "consort" is used to describe a woman who died while her husband was still living. Had she been widowed, the stone would have said she was "Relict of" so and so. As I said, that is almost always the case. There are rare exceptions, of course, but they seem to have been created by a stonecutter or family member who didn't understand the terminology themselves. This is useful if you have found a woman buried alone, without an obvious husband nearby. If she's called consort, he was still able to have moved after her death, or he could have remarried and ended up buried elsewhere. I hope that helps. Brian