If it had been a stormy marriage, it's very possible she instructed her family she didn't want to be placed beside him. Kay in CA ----Original Message Follows---- From: ColumbusGuy <plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com> Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com To: PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] why wife and husband not buried together Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Hi all, I'm curious why a widow (who had not remarried) would not be burried by her family with her previously deceased husband. A week or so ago I had been sent the death notice for one of the people I've been researching, Dorothy Schmalzried, who died in 1935, 13 years after her husband Jacob; the notice indicates that Dorothy was to be interred at the Lawnview cemetery in Philadelphia. Today, I just received a death notice for her husband Jacob Schmalzried. In the notice, it indicates he would be interred at the Mount Vernon cemetery in Philadelphia. It lists his wife as Dorothy Schmalzried, etc, etc. The info all matches, such that these death notices are indeed of the husband and wife I'm researching. So, what struck me odd was that the husband , Jacob, was interred, not at the Lawnview cemetery, but at Mount Vernon. This was totally unexpected. I just assumed that if I contacted the Lawnview cemetery last week, they would have told me Jacob was buried next to Dorothy. I guess it doesn't matter why. It just took me totally be surprise. Rich --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag3