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.

Hi Rich, Possibilities: 1. She was married before Jacob and is buried beside her first husband and possibly even children from that first marriage. 2. She is buried with her parents (family mausoleum, family area in cemetery) 3. Jacob is buried with his first wife. 4. A child of Jacob & Dorothy who died unexpectedly is buried in the grave intended for Dorothy. 5. She only could afford a single grave when Jacob died and left it up to relatives where she would be buried. Pure guesses - good luck. Dee For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm   -----Original Message----- From: philly-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:philly-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ColumbusGuy Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:11 PM To: PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] why wife and husband not buried together 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

In our family our grandfather, who outlived his wife, didn't want to be buried with his wife. He purchased a plot in another community and was buried there. On 4/14/07, Dee Thompson <d7777@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Possibilities: > 1. She was married before Jacob and is buried beside her first husband and > possibly even children from that first marriage. > 2. She is buried with her parents (family mausoleum, family area in > cemetery) > 3. Jacob is buried with his first wife. > 4. A child of Jacob & Dorothy who died unexpectedly is buried in the grave > intended for Dorothy. > 5. She only could afford a single grave when Jacob died and left it up to > relatives where she would be buried. > > Pure guesses - good luck. > Dee >

I too was surprised the first time this happened. One couple had divorced (though most of the family hadn't known this & the census never indicated it), another had a husband who simply disappeared & the brother of his wife buried her in his family plot, another couple had the husband buried in a cemetery that closed with the wife being buried in a new cemetery many years later, and yet another couple was buried separately with each ancestor being buried by a family member who had funds enough to provide for the burials. I'm learning that this is not so unusual a practice, and even very recently (this generation) we had to deal with this when unexpected deaths in the family caused us to look into how to try to keep family together in spite of high burial costs and limited space in existing family plots. ColumbusGuy <plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com> wrote: I'm curious why a widow (who had not remarried) would not be burried by her family with her previously deceased husband. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.