Can't Find That Cemetery, Here is a Trick, Icky Warning Attached

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Here is a trick we have used several times when we are out cemetery stomping and cannot find the cemetery.

Find a funeral home (sometimes easier to find than cemeteries are) and ask directions.

Hint: stop at a LARGE funeral home, not the little hole in the walls one, like the one Man spied down in southern Georgia a few years back.   We stopped, I knocked on doors, some were locked, some open, but no one answered a very loud “Hello”.  One door in the back was partially open, only, only, only,

OK, warning: don’t read next part if you are squeamish.

Only, no one answered and we discovered it was the embalming room!

YIKES!!

Thankfully room was UNOCCUPIED!!




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Yes, I WILL Go Over The Fence For Cemeteries

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Yes, I had permission.  My grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, great great great grandparents and possibly other greats are buried here.

We also ducked barbed wire and this thin wire that we suspect may have been electrical fence??  We were not going to touch to test it though.

Yep, I WILL go over and under fences to visit a family cemetery.  And, I'll go in a rain storm, stomp through tall weeds and grass (checking for ticks later), in heat, in cold, and a lot more.  I can still manage this, and I'll continue until I cannot.

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Death by Childbirth Insanity, Contributory, Insomnia

While working on local cemetery projects this death certificate was used to verify the death date and the surname at death.

Document from Seeking Michigan Death records.  Surname indexed:  Prulipp. Surname in reality:  Prielipp.  Cause of death shown as child birth insanity, contributory cause is shown as insomnia.  As my friend Mary says, "post-partum depression rears its ugly head".

Bertha is buried at the Speigel Lutheran Cemetery, Blissfield Township, Lenawee County, Michgan.  As you can see from the death certificate, this cemetery was also known as the German Lutheran Cemetery.

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Lets Bury Mabel Twice, Once Was Not Enough

Much of today I have been banging my head against the genie - brick walls and my fingers against the keyboard, challeging my IE to crash (it did, several times), begging the air card to deliver, cursing (oops, yea, well, I did curse a couple of times) at Ancestry for refusing to load full pages of newspaper images and just having a grand day of actually RESEARCHING!!  WOW!

So, lets take stock, I have 3 census reports here to input, I did copy the summary to the individuals text file, but there is more data to record.  I found the maiden name of a couple of my (mnu) chicks (yea, I know, some of you HATE MNU, but, it works for me and hey this is MY data base and MY research!  LOL).  I have several obituaries that I have found, and they are ALL typed in.  I have several more articles of color and interest to work on.

At first the search was dragging, painful, slow.   OUCHIE.  Then, I happened upon a cemetery database for Vicksburg Mississippi.  Wahhoo.  Now we are talking!  I found several of the clan I was searching for, maiden names were there. I even found a gal that I had just today decided probably was not buried there.  They say she is!  Yaaa, good stuff. 

Back to Ancestry, some more snooping.  Because of that census work I now had the given name of a daughter.  Before I had the names of her hubby and son, but, could not find her.  With the new found given name of Mabel, I searched, and was quite surprised to find her listed in a Jewish data base.  I have Catholics, I have Lutherans, I have Methodists, but, up to this evening I don't believe I have any Jewish heritage on my data base.  I welcome all, I find it fascinating.  I know I am gonna learn something from this lady!

There are not a lot of hits on Ancestry for Mabel Mayerhoff.  One of them is that Jewish database.  She is listed in a Jewish Cemetery in Vicksburg, with her husband and some other Mayerhoffs, his siblings, possibly his parents.  BUT, the Vicksburg website has her listed in the Cedar Hill Cemetery.

I guess I should be happy dancing all over Tana, the net held up, Ancestry delivered some of what I wanted, IE is currently allowing me to do this blog post and I now know Mabel Mayerhoff is buried somewhere in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi.  So, why would I care WHICH cemetery??

AH, tomorrow is a new day, a fresh start.  Me, the computer I love, the web, Ancestry and two cemetery lists that have Mabel Mayerhoff.  Wahhoo, can't wait!

*Graphics found somewhere on the internet several years ago, source data long lost.

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