During the years I extracted the information from books (14 of them) for the first Catholic cemetery in Hayward, I ran into a lot of things that did not "make sense" to me. One was that in some cases families were able to purchase a plot with one to several graves. I have seen copies of the "deed" to the plots and the graves are listed. That was in one set of books. Another set of books was the "plot" books. I think there were 4 of these books. The plots were listed in the order they were "sold" and the people buried in the plots were listed as to the grave number or "in the SW corner," etc. of the plot. The cemetery was begun in 1875 (I believe) and still continues to have burials; however, not very many of them. The reason I am trying to explaine the possible burial sites of those enterred in this cemetery is very different due to several factors. Each priest that was at All Saint may have different ideas as to who could and who could not be buried in a purchased plot. While I was working for 4 years on this extraction, I met many people who were looking for their families and they shared their "oral history" with me about the burial of their families. In several cases, the names of those buried in a plot did not match the person who had purchased the plot. I was told that it was a neighbor who died and could not afford to purchase a grave. There were also graves purchased by Portuguese Fraternal Societies to bury their members that did not have the means to purchase a grave. There were a large number of infants buried in 1918 (I suspect it was the flu epidemic) and in the cases where addresses were given for the deceased, whole neighborhoods lost many children and elderly people. Again, several were buried in places where the names of the "owner" of the plot was different from those being buried. I am sharing some possible reasons that the plot you think will contain your ancestor may or may not have others with different names buried with them. The oral histories shared with me told of many reasons; some were godchildren; some were neighbors; some said the priest asked the family to bury the person and my personal account of an uncle who died at the age of 3 months and was buried with the lady who was being buried that day. This oral history was from my grandmother (the baby's mother) and she told me several times that because she did not have the $5.00 in 1917, he was buried with this person she did not even know! She never forgot that her son was with a "stranger" and that it was the priest's fault. An interesting point for this burial is that they were buried in what was called the "poor ground" for those who could not affort to pay for a grave. In my grandmother's opinion, her son did not get the chance to have his own grave. When I run into something like a person being buried with people I don't recognize, I try to look at it in other ways and not only that the person is a relative. Celeste, Hayward, CA Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com
________________________________ From: "rcap...@redshift.com" <rcap...@redshift.com> To: azores@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] who's baby Michael, I have in my family an Uncle and nephew buried in the same plot in Benicia CA. The child, my Mom's brother, died when they lived in Benicia(1920's). The family then moved to Monterey. My Mom's uncle then died in Benicia (1950's) and had no money to bury him so my Mom's father gave the plot to his family. Therefore we have an uncle and a nephew buried together, both named Souza, in the same plot. Rosemarie > In my family burial plot at the St. John's Cemetery in New Bedford, > Ma. there are 2 infant girls buried there. The woman in the office > said they wouldn't be there if they weren't related by blood. The > problem is they each have a different last name than what I currently > know. From the New England Historic genealogic society's site I have > the following, > Estrella(Stella) Duarte died April 6th an buried April 8th 1893, F, 4 > months 17 days, spasm of larnyx, born and died New Bedford, > father Manuel born Fayal, mother Maria Nunes born New Bedford. It's > possible Manuel is my 3rd great grandfather because he was alive til > 1896 but Maria Nunes we have no clue. > The other infant is > Emilia(Emily) S. Couto, died Aug 19th buried aug 20th 1888, F, 9 > months 10 days, Cholera, born an died in New Bedford, father is > Francisco S. born Fayal, mother Rosa G born Fayal. > we have clue about any of these names. > does anyone have any ideas of where to look??? > > researching; grt grandmother maria pereira(pine then o'neill then > mcnaney), 2nd grt grandparents antonio silveira pereira(fayal)+maria > leal pereira(pico), 3rd grt grandfather manuel joaquin leal(pico), > jose joao pacheco died 1918 buried on top of Manuel Leal relation > unknown, grt grandfather jose francis pinheiro(cedros) > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
