death of Emily Moore Chase née Kirkwood

[HughC]

Billion Graves shows a memorial in Oak Grove cemetery, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts,
to Emily M. Chase 1873 - 1950.  Her husband (Harold) Weston Chase is also buried there.

I don't currently have access to Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland,
but according to my notes the Kirkwood entry gives her death in August 1947.
I'm used to discrepancies between sources of a day or a week, occasionally a month,
but three years is rather a lot.
Would some kind soul with access to US newspapers be prepared to see whether there was an announcement or report of the death in 1947 or 1950?

[aghadowey]

There is an Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Bluffs as well as Vineyard Haven.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91352/oak-grove-cemetery

The Vineyard Gazette, and possibly Boston Globe, would be the place to search for death notice and obituary.
https://vineyardgazette.com/ (online obituaries only go back to early 2000s)
https://vineyardgazette.com/tm/whatre-you-looking-for
https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/

Also listed on Find A Grave under Oak Bluffs-
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171921230/emily-moore-chase

[HughC]

Thank you, Aghadowey.

Billion Graves calls it Oak Grove cemetery, Vineyard Haven, but the map puts it on Pacific Avenue with the entrance right opposite Oak Bluffs town hall and public library.  I conclude that there is just one cemetery of that name in Martha's Vineyard, but people seem unable to decide which suburb it's in.
Weston Chase lived in Oak Bluffs.

[aghadowey]

There's an entrance to Oak Grove Cemetery in Vineyard Haven off of Pine Tree Road (my great-aunt lived around the corner on Spring St. so I often passed it)-
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oak+Grove+Cemetery,+20+Surveyors+Ln,+Vineyard+Haven,+MA+02568,+USA/@41.450489,-70.6159677,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e528a25b19af69:0x3330b8cf9c8a16ec!8m2!3d41.4506895!4d-70.6138718!16s%2Fg%2F11bvtg6zzq?entry=ttu

The Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Bluffs is on Pacific Ave.-
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pacific+Ave,+Vineyard+Haven,+MA+02568,+USA/@41.455344,-70.5673954,15.5z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e5290481122153:0x20d1bbe9b98f37df!8m2!3d41.4560208!4d-70.5678899!16s%2Fg%2F11c883cw4b?entry=ttu

They are over a mile apart.

[RJ137]

1950 appears to be correct.

Massachusetts Index to deaths A-Fri 1946-1950-

Image 535-bottom of page

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLR-8KB6?i=534&cat=1054041

[HughC]

Thank you both.  I wonder why FamilySearch had to hide it away so well.
Anyway, she appears to have died in Oak Bluffs, where she was in the 1920 and 1930 censuses, so I'll stick with that one.  How silly to have two quite separate cemeteries with the same name in the same urban agglomeration.

[aghadowey]

How silly to have two quite separate cemeteries with the same name in the same urban agglomeration.

Perhaps she died in hospital? Martha's Vineyard Hospital, established in 1921, is within the town boundaries of Oak Bluffs.
They are in two separate towns on the same island not in the "same urban agglimeration."