tvguy
Question anything the facts don't support.
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- Dec 15, 2003
Not a matter of trust. Just not sure it will be fruitful to go to a cemetery and walk 3,600 graves looking for someone the cemetery says isn't there. And from the notes on Find a Grave, others ahead of us HAVE done that and found nothing. This is a town with a population of just 2,600 today. I have no idea how many people lived there 100 years ago but it has been my experience that birth and death records can be sketchy in small towns that long ago.So you don't trust the funeral home and newspaper obituary because the cemetery doesn't have a record and only 57% is indexed in FindaGrave?
I'd really trust the death cert and obituary to be accurate.
Any chance he was Catholic or had a funeral at a church? Catholic churches, Episcopal Lutheran and Presbyterian churches are often required to keep death record books with date and place of burial.
Also, there are often headstone records when markers are made, especially for military veterans. Many of these are in the Ancestry database.