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| Hay tombstone in Rock Creek Cemetery - picture taken 2000 |
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| 1931 newspaper article |
Three Hay generations are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery: Oliver Perry Hay (1846-1930) and his wife Mary Emily Howsmon Hay (1848-1931); their son Robert Howsmon Hay (1882-1952) and his wife Alma Elizabeth Bischoff Hay (1885-1956); and Oliver and Mary Hay's daughter Frances Steele Hay (1876-1962). These five are buried under the one tombstone pictured above. The tombstone reads:
Although Alma's death certificate lists 1884 as her birth year, her actual birth year is 1885, as engraved. No birth record was found (searched 1883-1886), but her 1889 Concordia christening records lists her birth year as 1885, her 1900 census lists her birth as March 1885, her marriage license in Dec 1909 said she was 24, and her June 1912 son's birth record said she was 27 -- all confirming a 1885 birth year.
In a neighboring plot are Robert and Alma's son: Donald Albert Hay (1912-1978) and his wife Eleanor Alma Dankenbring Hay (1913-1974)