I also have a lot of obstacles when it comes to trying to locate
information - especially dates.

Burned counties

Missing pages or years in official books

Name spelling variations

Tombstones lost for various reasons

And the way newspapers listed deaths then, if they did, could be almost
anywhere in them (no consistency) so will have to go day by day, page by
page for months and several papers.

But that has been a source of frustration for me and hope many records
will eventually be scanned and they take the time to use OCR technology
so pages can be searched.  But thinking he was prominent enough and
wealthy, why is he not recorded somewhere or had a large obit in the
newspaper?


Eric


 

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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Death Notice 1820s

Eric,

Thanks for the clarification. So there was an inventory of his estate.
Good to know. And that certainly does kill him. Your theory of being
buried at the school property makes sense, and he probably did have a
tombstone. But that will probably never be proved in our lifetime. He
may not have been a wealthy merchant at the time of his death. Merchants
were notorious for having more money owed them than they had in the
bank, so to speak. And also for owing a lot of money to other people at
the same time. In other words, his estate had no money. That's just a
guess, and you are more familiar with his paper trail than I am.

Craig Kilby 
 
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