Jack, et al.
Is any research done to identify those who died through newspapers, etc. to
try to pinpoint burials through those sources?
We were forced to abstract deaths from no less than five area newspapers to
cover all the years our county has existed and we still find tombstones for
persons who had no death notice and death notices for thousands who can't be
found by tombstone at any of our cemeteries. It's slow and arduous, but we
figure if they died in a town and village and weren't reported to be
"taken"
elsewhere for burial, then they're in the local cemetery.
As re: St. Peter's, where are the church's records? A lot of our oldest
records in California are in San Francisco which was the first diocese
before the Church decided to spread out to the placer mining areas ca. 1850.
Even then, many of the local parishes were just missions with a visiting
priest who kept the records at the main place of appointment.
Just some thoughts....
Sue Silver
----- Original Message -----
From: Ellyn R. Kern <ekern(a)venus.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Old St. Peters Cem.
Jack Briles:
I noticed earlier that you wanted to know about any persons probably
buried in Old St. Peters Cem.
My husband's ggrandfather is likely to have been buried there. He died
in 1880 in Harrison County and we haven't been able to find his grave.
His name was Frank Brown.(Francis Braun) We strongly suspected St.
Peter's before reading about your work. He was not of the more common
Brown family in Harrison County, but believed to have come from
Alsace-Lorraine. There may have been some Peffer or Pfeffer also.
We haven't been to Harrison County for several years, but have been
anxiously following your activity.
Ellyn Kern
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