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From: "Larry Slavens" <IArooster(a)earthlink.net>
To: <INBOONE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Jessie SHEETS (again)
> "bur. w/o Jessie Salem Cemetery" means Carrie was
buried without Jessie
in
> Salem Cemetery.
Sure about that? w/o in a cemetery listing often means "wife of". Which of
course doesn't have any bearing on whether Jessie is buried in the same
cemetery or not. But I wouldn't rule it out.
Cemetery transcriptionists have done a great service, but the listings can
contain errors. When I started researching my family I was surprised to
find
that the spouses of a ggrandfather and a gggrandmother weren't
buried in
the
same cemetery. When I visited a couple years later, I found that they
were
there-- whoever read the I.O.O.F. Cemetery at Jamestown didn't read the
back
side of the monuments, which is where the "missing" people
were listed.
So maybe Jessie's there, but he's on the back of the stone, or beside her
without a stone, or the stone is broken, unreadable, etc.
Larry
Good point, Larry. I hadn't thought of that.
I have a photo of the headstone of Jessie's wife, Carrie Shaw Sheets. She
shares the cemetery marker with her sister Laura Jane Shaw. But only the
front of the marker was photographed. So Carrie and her sister are buried in
Salem Cemetery and are listed on their rolls, but Jessie's name doesn't
appear in that cemetery's records.
Michael