tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post1074603145555008713..comments2023-03-25T05:29:33.323-07:00Comments on The Ancestors Have Spoken: Sentimental Sunday: The Removal of Sarah HodgeRoot Diggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-77813901697203326692014-01-17T11:17:27.244-08:002014-01-17T11:17:27.244-08:00Thank you for your comments.This is good informati...Thank you for your comments.This is good information too.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-4358738044392376742014-01-17T11:08:04.025-08:002014-01-17T11:08:04.025-08:00That is good to know. I do have other relatives f...That is good to know. I do have other relatives from MS. will have to do that.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-61263543584978745422014-01-17T11:07:13.436-08:002014-01-17T11:07:13.436-08:00Thank you for posting the information. Also thank...Thank you for posting the information. Also thank you for coming by and commenting.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-38076591921535175072014-01-16T14:10:19.114-08:002014-01-16T14:10:19.114-08:00I too have family buried in Washington Park Cemete...I too have family buried in Washington Park Cemetery. <br /><br />Here is a link to the Washington Park Cemetery<br />North Reinterment Index. Hope this helps. http://www.stlouiscityrecorder.org/.../washi.../wpindex.html<br /><br />I was able to find a few family members on this list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-84397337567384152692013-08-04T11:56:43.159-07:002013-08-04T11:56:43.159-07:00At our Genealogy Societiey meeting, one month we h...At our Genealogy Societiey meeting, one month we had a funeral director in our city of St Louis Mo speak. His funeral Home is named Eddie Randle and is located on Shreve and Natural Bridge. If u have any relatives that his company serviced between the 1920's to now, he has records. He can tell u where they r buried and any other info he may have. But that is not the case for other funeral homes in the city. Many have been bought out by white companies, but they keep the name of the black owners on it and black employees. U know why. Records r not saved. There is no law that says funeral homes must save them for any length of time. Not like the coroners office. Our funeral service obits that we have made, r the only records someone in the family r someone who collects them is our only records. In St Louis Mo, Mr Eddie Randle said, to his knowledge, he is the ONLY black owned and operated Black Funeral Home in the city. We asked him is this the rule for funeral homes in other states? He said, to his knowledge there is no law that says they have to keep mortician records. Now u ask where do the records go.......>>>>>>>Kinikianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-47090399947852592422013-08-04T10:55:41.511-07:002013-08-04T10:55:41.511-07:00You may want to check at the churches your ancesto...You may want to check at the churches your ancestors attended. That is how I was able to get information in the Yazoo City, MS area. Don't forget the local funeral homes. If you are patient they are willing to help. They take a long time but the information is kept forever. I'm still tracing our Black and Native American ancestors in MS.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-23476329258576218992013-08-04T10:36:51.497-07:002013-08-04T10:36:51.497-07:00It really is Andrea.It really is Andrea.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-12247005829128180682013-08-04T10:36:33.792-07:002013-08-04T10:36:33.792-07:00Thank you Kinikia for sharing. I hope that I can ...Thank you Kinikia for sharing. I hope that I can do some contribution to Washington Park Cemetery. I sure would like to know if my family has headstones.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-66742552622480103402013-08-04T10:34:26.716-07:002013-08-04T10:34:26.716-07:00Dear Anonymous, My Uncle Henry is still alive. I...Dear Anonymous, My Uncle Henry is still alive. I reside in his home. He is about 83 years old now.Please contact me at yporter@cox.net. Would like to connect if we are in fact related. Also please let me know your name.Root Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078852616599847109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-56971205419941031292013-08-04T10:07:23.683-07:002013-08-04T10:07:23.683-07:00Up until 1982 many black people still were buried ...Up until 1982 many black people still were buried in Washington Park Cemetery. My granfather is one of them. Dont know where. There is no record exactly where r headstone. If there was a headstone it does not exist. At the St Louis County Library HQ, there is a CD with a list of names of people that had been reentered in 1994 to other cemeteries all over the city and county areas of St Louis Mo. I was told the names they had records for were listed in the newspaper, so descendants could claim them, so they could have them removed to a cemetery of their choice r at least be informed where they were going to be reentered. Many family members had died r moved. The city and Lambert paid to remove--what they said were remains at their cost and provided headstones for each named person. One of them was my grgrandma Lucy Vance. I saw her name on this CD, no other family names. She has a headstone at Calvary Cemetery on Natural Bridge, Section 37, plot 7. The picture of the headstone they provided is on findagrave. I contributed the request for the photo. I also pd and added a birth and death b.1852-d.1948. There is a very large section for many of people who have been reentered from Washington Park Cemetery. But this is not the only cemetery in St Louis where people r recorded as being reentered. I personally think my grgranma's remains r actually there, but at least there is a headstone to visit. There is still a section where headstones for some graves and graves r not documented on the north side of I-70 near the airport. I paid to have birth and death dates added to my ggranma LUCY VANCE's headstone.kinikianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-29800011973465478312013-08-04T10:02:05.260-07:002013-08-04T10:02:05.260-07:00This is one of my relatives. My paternal Great-gre...This is one of my relatives. My paternal Great-great grandmother was named Sarah Hodge and her daughter my great grand mother was Sarah Ellis Hodge. Sarah Ellis Hodge married my paternal great grandfather Hunter Clowers. After the 1900 census in MS.They seem to have disappeared.Since all of the family elders have died. I am in my early 60's and now a family elder. I have been stuck for the past 7 years trying to find out what happened to Sarah and Hunter. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523730894129255943.post-81897776925525938892013-08-04T09:18:26.921-07:002013-08-04T09:18:26.921-07:00It is so sad when people value money over people. ...It is so sad when people value money over people. I am sorry that your ancestors and so many others were moved. Andrea Kelleherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711352023496985469noreply@blogger.com