I don't think there is a photo of the headstone on the site. It does give the section & plot, so it would just be a matter of someone going out there and snapping a photo.
Loran On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:37 AM, BruceY wrote: > But I don't see a photo of her gravestone there, Just the monument > showing the name of the Cemetery, is there a way to see the > Gravestone and the dates? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loran T. Hughes" <lo...@oldcrank.com > > > To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:50 AM > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Additional Ada Jones Information > > >> Here's her page on findagrave.com: >> http://tinyurl.com/637djg >> >> Loran >> From bruce78...@comcast.net Sun Apr 13 12:02:28 2008 From: bruce78...@comcast.net (BruceY) Date: Sun Apr 13 12:00:20 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] 19th century birth dates ect. References: <blu105-w56222cc4ec2b60ff12eadfd1...@phx.gbl> <1578df77-1729-43fa-b90b-f12067ea5...@oldcrank.com> Message-ID: <001001c89d98$ec29c790$6401a...@user52c8f93503> You are quite correct Loran, the powers that be obviously overlooked some glaring glitches in the preperation, or lack there of, of Poor Ada's Death Certificate, her last legal record referring to her life and death here on earth.. Wrong name and spelling of her husbands last name and her married name, parents listed as unknown? What was she? a Bastard Child?? we know she wasn't but this legal document raises the question. date of birth not filled in, no residential address!! What was she? a homeless Bag Lady? and much,much more. Presumably this unconciouable lack of information on the last document prepared which in summary is suppose to give reference to important dates, information, and individuals in this persons life, was done to speed the shipping of remains to New York for funeral and burial. This is no excuse to leave this important legal document uncorrected, nor is it an acceptable excuse that it somehow sybolize a colorful quirkiness of this time long ago. I guess we can just agree to disagree. I vote to go for correction and you and others like it just the way it is. and let's just let it lay there. I have my reasons to change it, you have your reasons not to. We have talked this issue to death. No pun intended!! Thanks for the trip. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loran T. Hughes" <lo...@oldcrank.com> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] 19th century birth dates ect. > Well said. My mom was born in a cabin in South Dakota in 1924. The > country doc filed the birth certificate a few days later and recorded the > wrong birth date. There was no double checking the facts - it was just > the way things were done. The doc just went from memory. It was never > corrected - it's just not that important to my mom. > > I'm sure it was the same with Ada Jones' death certificate. It was filled > out with the best knowledge of the available witnesses. If her husband > even received a copy, he may not have bothered to read it in his time of > grief. And if he did catch the mistake, would he really bother contacting > the state of N.C. to get it corrected? Their would have been nothing to > gain for the trouble. > > As far as getting all the proper paperwork together, who's to say that > the rails weren't greased (no pun intended) to get a famous singer's body > back to her family for burial. It was, after all, 1922, not 2008. > > We know when & where Ada was born and died. We know where she's buried. > We know her true age. Is it really necessary to legally change a death > certificate of someone who's been gone nigh on 90 years? Shall we next > demand a correction from the NY Times for getting her age wrong in the > obituary? > > Personally, I think these quirky paperwork glitches add a bit of color to > the history and are a testament of the times in which she lived. > > Loran > > On Apr 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Thomas Edison wrote: > >> <snip> The problem with all of us we go at research with 21st century >> thought, put yourself in a 19th and early 20th century mindset when you >> do research and come to conclusions, makes things much eiser to >> understand. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
