Who Goes with Who?

[MarieC]

That is interesting, Pinetree!!  And must be quite rare, I think.  I am sure your explanation must be right.

Could it also be that the wife and her first husband had bought a plot with room for several graves, that when the little ones died they were a bit hard up and rather than forking out money for another grave, they decided to bury them with the first husband?  (But your explanation would still hold, also.)

Where was the wife buried?  With husband 1 or 2?

MarieC

[kerryb]

Even with out the headstones they should be on a burial record surely. I have been able to find most of mine on burial records.

Sharon

Sharon, I've found most of mine on burial records too, but it would be nice nevertheless to have a physical reminder of them.

Kerry

[Pinetree]

Could it also be that the wife and her first husband had bought a plot with room for several graves.

Where was the wife buried? With husband 1 or 2?

MarieC

It certainly was quite a large plot - the headstone is engraved on both sides which is something I've not come across before and nearly made me miss half the names 

There are 7 people in total 3 adults and 4 children:

First husband
Daughter of first marriage age 9
2 children of second marriage age 1 and 5

Then on the other side

Son of second marriage and his wife and their daughter age 4.

The widow and her second husband are in their own plot nearby.

Pinetree

[MarieC]

That's really interesting, Pinetree!!!  Even the adult son of the second marriage, buried in that grave!  There must be a really good story there somewhere!

MarieC

[kerryb]

That reminds me of a graveyard I visited last winter, trying to find some ancestors.  There were 3 large plots of a family, I think they were 3 brothers buried with wives and children all next to each other. 

I remember thinking it was a bit odd considering they were all farmers, that they all had such large graves together.  Must have been either influential or they saved their money hard to be buried together when they went.

Kerry

[Paul E]

I was lucky to find a gravestone for an ancestor buried in the 1850's that was erected by his son (my direct ancestor's brother) who had 'made good' in South Africa and had paid for the headstone.  Otherwise, I think he would have been as anonymous as all the other ag labs in my tree!

Paul

[kerryb]

I have found a few and when I do I find it very moving.  I found one recently of my 5x gr grandmother who died in 1855 who had a headstone.  She was buried without her husband though, he had died a lot earlier than her and I don't know where he is buried.

Kerry