In a message dated 4/14/2007 6:11:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com writes: I'm curious why a widow (who had not remarried) would not be burried by her family with her previously deceased husband. Rich- I can think of several possible reasons that I've run into in my family. 1) my grandmother was a second wife and even though she was married to my grandfather for nearly 50 years, and the first wife died after only a few years of marriage, my grandfather is buried with the first wife and my grandmother is buried in her parents' plot. 2) my great-great-grandmother is buried in a cemetery that hadn't been opened yet when he husband died years earlier. Her husband is buried in an older cemetery. I assume by the time my 2nd great-grandmother died the family elected to bury her in my great-grandfather's family plot because there was space there and the plot was paid for. 3) one of my 2nd great-grandfathers' is buried in a plot allocated for patients who died in the county Alms House while his wife who died earlier is buried in the family plot. Joan ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Thanks all. Jacob was in fact married b4, but he and Dorothy were married 36 years. But I guess there can be all kinds of reasons. Guess that will teach me to assume something. My parents will kind of be the reverse of this. They have been divorced for 30 years, neither remarried, and they still plan to be buried together. And I thought they would never get back together. lol JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 4/14/2007 6:11:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com writes: I'm curious why a widow (who had not remarried) would not be burried by her family with her previously deceased husband. Rich- I can think of several possible reasons that I've run into in my family. 1) my grandmother was a second wife and even though she was married to my grandfather for nearly 50 years, and the first wife died after only a few years of marriage, my grandfather is buried with the first wife and my grandmother is buried in her parents' plot. 2) my great-great-grandmother is buried in a cemetery that hadn't been opened yet when he husband died years earlier. Her husband is buried in an older cemetery. I assume by the time my 2nd great-grandmother died the family elected to bury her in my great-grandfather's family plot because there was space there and the plot was paid for. 3) one of my 2nd great-grandfathers' is buried in a plot allocated for patients who died in the county Alms House while his wife who died earlier is buried in the family plot. Joan ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ********* 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 --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.