Does anyone know if elderly parents came to live with their children as they aged? Adult children are living in different cities from each other and from the parents. I have the date of death of the parents. The question is did the parents go to live with the adult children and die there, rather than the county where they were actually buried? Did the elderly rely on neighbors and town folk if the adult children lived away? SHusk DUPUIS, DICKINSON, CLIBBORN, FETTER, WOODRUFF, FULLER, DOZIER

Quite often I have seen the elderly parents move in with their adult children. In many instances they move out of state in order to live with the children. I've seen them move in with the eldest child from a first marriage as well as (and more often) move in with the youngest child. I have also seen them rotate among the adult children, living with each of them for several years. In my family from Rutland County, the elderly parents moved out to Wisconsin though I can't figure out yet if they are buired in Rutland County or in Wisconsin. I suspect due to cost that often the elderly parents would be buried in the county where they died. Jeanette Researching: Westcott, Howland, Seamans, Hutchinson in VT Susan Husk <shusk@evansville.net> wrote: Does anyone know if elderly parents came to live with their children as they aged? Adult children are living in different cities from each other and from the parents. I have the date of death of the parents. The question is did the parents go to live with the adult children and die there, rather than the county where they were actually buried? Did the elderly rely on neighbors and town folk if the adult children lived away? SHusk DUPUIS, DICKINSON, CLIBBORN, FETTER, WOODRUFF, FULLER, DOZIER ==== VTRUTLAN Mailing List ==== Do you have a resource you could share with the list members? Would you be willing to do some "lookups" for a limited time period? If you would, please let the members know. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

At 10:28 PM 8/15/04, Susan Husk wrote: >Does anyone know if elderly parents came to live with their children as they aged? Adult children are living in different cities from each other and from the parents. > >I have the date of death of the parents. The question is did the parents go to live with the adult children and die there, rather than the county where they were actually buried? Did the elderly rely on neighbors and town folk if the adult children lived away? > >SHusk Hi, Susan: You have not provided places, dates, or ethnic origins, which makes it impossible to provide any kind of *useful* answer. And obviously, the *useless* answer to each of your questions is, "Yes, sometimes." Darrell Darrell A. Martin darrellm@sprynet.com a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy