Beverly, Are any of the Mello's buried at the site? Is there a stone for them? If you want to honor your family member and I hope you can make some kind of contact with this Mello family, maybe they will let you put a flat stone where your family member is buried. We did this with one of our family members.
However, some members of my family were not happy when an aunt buried her husband in our grandparent's gravesites (there were 8) and then put his name on the big family stone. They would have been OK with her putting his name on a separate flat stone but not on the family stone....well, my mom was really upset she even buried him there........but that's another story. This aunt is buried there and I believe the last two sites are for her daughters which they have no problem with. Maybe they didn't like the guy?? I have a great aunt buried with some people that no one of her family knows who these people are. Whoever bought the sites (5) aren't even buried there and I guess the family doesn't even know about them. So when my great-aunt's daughter recently died, they were able to bury her next to her mother. I think they are now going to use the others for their family. Somebody paid for the sites so I guess someone might as well use them. "E" On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > My grandparents* Manuel S. & Mary R. Silva *lived in the > Applegate/Jordan/Whitmore area of Atwater, CA during late 1920's & 1930's. > They had a large family of 12 children. Child #12 was *Charles *born 18 > Dec 1928 died 17 Jan 1929. We have funeral records showing him buried in > the Winton Cemetery but the Cemetery has no record of a Silva Site. They > did tell us a baby was buried in Block 1 Lot 10-44. (recorded 21 Jan 1929) > The Block was purchased by *Joe F. Mello *(total 7 sites). Looking at > the 1930 census we found Joe F. Mello worked as a dairyman on Fawcett ranch. > > The cemetery contacted the heir(s) with our problem but they do not want > any contact with us as they do not know us... Or who that baby is.. > > I am asking if anyone who may know of my family's history and Mello's to > contact me. We just want to honor Charles... > > > > Mello has been a name that was constantly mentioned in the family when > they lived in Merced, Santa Clara & Alameda Counties. My mother and all of > her sisters and brothers except for one, and he has dementia, are all gone > now. > > > > The names of the other children are: Edith, Fred, Manuel, Harry, Helen > (my mother), Emily, Alice, Bill, Bert, Caroline, Adeline and Peter (born > after Charles died). If anyone has any information on any of them to > please contact me. My mother always talked fondly of Applegate School and > was saddened to learn of it being torn down. > > > > Thank you in advance for your help, > > Beverly Avila Marcelo, Merced, CA > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
