Les, I found some information on my husbands g-g-grandfather: John Parker Shockey s/o Robert Cattlett Shockey I talked with an office worker at the cemetery he is buried at today. We had been looking for his burial place for about 8 years and could never find him or his death date. I found his wife Margaret "MAGGIE" Stewart Shockey and his previously unknown son Robert C. at: Illinois Regional Archives Depository System (IRAD) death index for pre-1916 deaths in Cook County, Illinois. _http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html_ (http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html) She was born in Sept 1850 and died in Chicago, Illinois on DEC 20, 1906 from pneumonia. I sent for the undertaker's report on Maggie W. Shockey and on it, her place of burial was listed as Forest Home Cemetery, in Forest Park, Cook Co., Illinois. Birthplace for her and both her parents was Delaware. I had also sent for a Physician's Certificate of Death: for what I thought might be her previously unknown son, who was named Robert C. SHOCKEY (Info also from IRAD.) He was born in about 1881 and died on April 4, 1892, at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, from peritonitis caused by appendicitis. He was also buried at Forest Home Cemetery, in Forest Park, Illinois. I called the cemetery on Friday morning asking about getting a memorial marker for Maggie and Robert's graves and asked if John Shockey was also buried in their cemetery. She looked it up and found him listed as being buried beside Maggie and Robert C. Shockey. NONE of their graves have a headstone on them. We are going to buy one that all three will fit on. The cemetery told me that John SHOCKEY died on March 15, 1930, and that he was 77 years old, 4 months and 11 days. That works out perfectly with the birth date give for him in "The Shockey Chronicles," they lists his birth as November 4, 1852, in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana. On the IRAD site it said that he died in Hickory Point TWP, Macon Co., Illinois. I am going to order his death certificate to make sure that he is the same John Shockey buried in Forest Home Cemetery. Woo Hoo!!! I just wanted to say NEVER give up, sometimes you find your ancestors in places you never thought they would be in. A lady from RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) had gone to the cemetery to take pictures of Maggie's headstone for me and wrote me that she had none and that she couldn't help me any further. She only asked the cemetery if MAGGIE SHOCKEY was buried there so that is the only information they gave her. By calling myself and asking the questions I got most of the answers we had been looking for, for years! Genealogical success is not always just around the corner sometimes it is in the next town or state. KEEP Looking until you find them!!! Nancy Shockey