Below are e-mails sent in to this site by individuals in order to clarify certain burial information which may only be known by the family. The surnames are generally in alphabetical order, but you should use the Find function of your browser.
Note: This information has not been checked through independent sources. It is therefore recommended that researchers use the following only as clues to gaining further information. A good policy is to write the cemetery for verification.
Subject: BURIALS DATABASE
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:58:59 (EDT)
From: Lea Peak
Here I go again. While looking through my great grandmother's papers, I found that she bought 3 Cemetery plots at the Oak Hill Cemetery for Lizzie Bruhl, Eli Manspeaker and John Stull. I can find Joseph Bruhl (Her 1st husband, but not Lizzie)
Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:01 PM
Abel Crabtree son of Alcey Throckmorton and James William Crabtree of Scioto Co Ohio was born May 6 1821 in Jackson Co, Oh d Sept 9, 1900 in Rock Bluffs, Ne husband of Elizabeth Clemmons.
Abel Crabtree son of Peter Crabtree and grandson of Alcey Throckmorton and James William Crabtree b 1866 and d 1960 in Douglas, Nebraska buried Rose Hill Cemetery. m. Rebecca Carpenter. I assume you're interested in the elder.
Carol Martin
Subject: in East Union Cemetery
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:52:29 -0700
From: Sandy Schonegg
The caretaker of the East Union Cemetery sent the following information about my Great Great Grandfather, Isaac Dye's, family.
I have so much information on the lives of the first Isaac and his wife Elizabeth from their births and marriage in Ohio, their adult life and the lives of their 11 children in Indiana. Isaac's sons Isaac and Jacob were both married and had children in Nebraska.
As a result of speaking with certain members of the McGuiness family; Mary Isabelle Heard (McGuiness- maiden name), I question wether the spelling of these family members is correct? [McGinniss] Edna Mae, Lemuel T., Lola I., Lola M., Mary C., and Walter L.
According to grave markers there at South Bend Cemetary and family the spelling is McGuiness. I thought you would want this for the records.
Sincerely, 2nd cousin to Mary, Lori Lee Bates
Subject: PREPEJCHAL
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:30:45 -0700
In Katerina Prepejchalova's obituary published on 11 June 1905 in the Chicago Czech language newspaper, Denni Hlasatel, showed that she died in Plattsmouth, Nebraska on 9 June 1905 at the age of 95. She was living there with her son-in-law and daughter, Vaclav (James) and Frantiska (Francis) Skoumal. She was buried at a St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery.
Submitted by: Barbara Merriman
Subject: BURIALS DATABASE
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:26:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Barb Rainey
Jay Rainey, divorced and left the plot next to him, to his mother, Hazel Rainey. His son, unknowingly, ordered a large stone for his father, and when his grandmother passed away there wasn't any room for a stone for her. She is buried next to him in an unmarked grave.They are buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.
Barb Rainey
Subject: SEYBERT, WILSON family
Date: Apr. 12, 1999
My ggggrandfather, Isaac SEYBERT, came to Cass County around 1878 where two of his sons, Andrew and Jacob, had settled several years before. Isaac and Ruth WILSON SEYBERT are buried in Eight Mile Grove Cemetery. They were born in Augusta County, now Highland County, Virginia.
Submitted by: Charles Beverage
My Maternal Grandmother, Iva Fern Bishop Smith was born in Cass Co 22 Sep 1886. Her mother, Zerilda Shafer Bishop, wife of Fred Warren Bishop, died 18 January 1894 and was buried there in 1894.
I located the graves of Zerilda's mother and sister in Oak Hill Cemetery. (Elizabeth S. Gullion
Shafer and Alice M. Shafer Mason). However, no published documents showed Zerilda's burial anywhere in the county. Neil Lancaster was kind enough to help me research the court house records where I found, in the lot owned by her father, William Henry Shafer, the burial of "Mrs. Fred Bishop" d. 18 Jan 1894 in grave #5 ! This was the same lot where I'd seen the stone with her mother, Elizabeth's, name on one side and sister, Alice's name on another.
The court house records did not show her mother and sister as being buried there, but all the published records showed the mother and sister without Zerilda listed. Mr. Lancaster explained that the first 20 years' cemetery records burned in a hotel fire. Since both Elizabeth and sister Alice had died during that 20 year period, they were not shown on the court house cemetery records. My great grandmother, Zerilda, is not in the published materials because she has no stone, and those publications were prepared by volunteers walking the cemetery and recording the stones.
I went back to the cemetery and the sextant was kind enough to take his "dousing rods" to the lot and found three burials in that plot. I had been hoping for 5, as the parents of William Henry Shafer died in 1865 in Plattsmouth, and I have not been able to locate them. But it was proof that the lot did contain mother Elizabeth with her two daughters, Alice and Zerilda.
Elizabeth S. Gullion, born in Boone or Switzerland Co, Indiana 1826. married William Henry Shafer 31 May 1846 in Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana, per marriage license. She died 22 Jan 1872. (Nebraska Herald, Plattsmouth, Thursday, January 25, 1872: "Died, January 22nd, at 20 minutes before 2 o'clock p.m., Elizabeth, wife of Henry Shaffer.") Buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Plot #117.
Alice M Shafer, b. abt 12 Jul 1855, Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska. m. B. F. Mason. d. 14 Jan 1880, buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Plot #117.
I would never have found this information had it not been for the kindness of Neil Lancaster and Margo Prentiss at the museum.
Submitted by: Nola L. Thompson.
I'm originally from Cass County and I noticed that there is a misspelled name in the data
base. I have attached it as it appears below. Alma X Yardle should be spelled "Yardley". She
is my great-grandmother and was married to John Yardley. Her maiden name is Shrader and
was the daughter of George Washington Shrader and Isabella Hutchison. She is buried in
Lewiston cemetery.
Submitted by: Judy A. Goering
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