[or-roots] Re: [GFO] Powell Grove Cemetery

[CKlooster at aol.com]

Now these are the kinds of puzzles that make genealogy interesting!  Have you 
approached this from a different angle?  By the 1930's most  localities 
required a bit of paperwork before a burial.  I think this would  be particularly 
true if the death occured in one state and the burial in  another.  There may 
be transport permits issued in the locality where the  death occured and burial 
permits in the locality where the burial occured.   In the past I've found 
burial permit records in a county courthouse, and several  times in municipal 
records when the cemetery was located inside a city  limits.  I believe it was 
also common practice for the funeral homes to  keep copies of the permits for 
the burials they handled.  Sometimes those  records have been passed on to 
local historical or genealogical societies when  funeral homes have closed.  
 
As to the actual "family plot", my guess is that your  great-grandparents are 
actually buried there...more together in death than they  were in life.  I 
have seen this happen.  It depends, I think, on who  was the next of kin at the 
time of the death.  If both your great  grandparents outlived their respective 
spouses and there were no children of the  second marriages, then the child 
or children of their original marriage may have  wanted to see their parents 
buried together.  There may have also been a  practical reason; if the burial 
plot was already owned, for example...money may  have been tight for the family 
in the 1930's.  
 
Strange things happen after a death...old sibling  rivalries and long 
forgotten differences can revive as a  tug-of-war over funeral arrangements.  I know 
of one lady who kept her  mother's ashes for nearly three years, to the 
frustration of her siblings and  the rest of the family who wanted their mother's 
remains properly buried!
 
I hope you will give us updates as you solve this riddle...
 
Carla
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