This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zARBAIB/121.1.1 Message Board Post: In mid-April, 2002 the near final piece of a 45 year old family mystery arrived in my mail box. The DEATH CERTIFICATE of my Grand-Aunt GOLDA DOUGHERTY SWEATT, widow of ALBERT SWEATT of Owensboro, Ky.. As mentioned before, she had disappeared, & I recently located her info. Her death certificate indicates that she was living in the HODGES REST HOME at 3991 Dalton St., Los Angeles, Ca. at the time of her death. I went to find the place, & discovered that while the building is still there it had become a single family dwelling in the ealy 1970's. Her Certificate told me how she had died (a blood clot to the brain), & MOST IMPORTANTLY, where she had been laid to rest. On the same day I also paid a visit to Queen Of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Rowland Heights, Ca., about 15 miles from where I live, & along a bus route I have taken quite often over the last 30 years. Because she had no known relatives for the rest home to notify, & she was Catholic, the COUNTY arranged for her to be buried in the Charity Section of this Cemetery without a marker. I made an otherwise boring day into an exciting one for a couple of clerks who were able to provide me with the exact spot she was laid, & a gardner, who guided me to it on the grounds. I now know the, relatively cheap, cost of giving her a headstone, & am lining up relatives to join me in paying for it. Come Xmas, GOLDA will have her headstone & proof that her family had not forgotten her. The final piece of the puzzle may never be solved, but I would still like to know the answer if I can find it: Did she go to the LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR & did they have anything to do with her ending up in this rest home? With my new info, I will be making another call to the Sisters. :-) Let this be a lesson to my fellow NEWBIES, & to occasionally frustrated Old Timers: Brick Walls CAN be knocked down, with persaverance & a little luck. I have been posting these updates on my quest for the SWEATTS in the hopes that relatives of ALBERT & ALPHONSO, researching into the family past, will see them & contact me. As far as I know ALBERT & GOLDA had no childern, & I know nothing more about ALBERT & ALPHONSO other than when & where they were buried. Before the summer is out I hope to have copies of their Death Certificates, & will know more at that time. Thanks for reading this long post, & good luck to all who have done so your own searches.