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Most old cemeteries have never-marked or no-longer-marked graves. In some readings, the people doing the work estimate the number of apparent graves for which no legible tombstone exists. Commonly, that number reaches or exceeds ten percent of the legible tombstones.
Three ways, none of them quick or easy, of adding to burials in an old cemetery are checking mortuary records, obituaries and death certificates. All occasionally list conflicting information about a burial site, but it's hard to know when a time-of-death record and a current record have different burial places if the first was a mistake or there has been a movement of the body or, as happens sometimes, just the marker.
For instance, the Chaffin Funeral Home records say that Nancy (Peace) Roberts 17 Apr 1868 - 6 Jun 1931 who died during a goiter operation was buried at Peace Cemetery, but no legible stone has been found there for her. The Rathbun Mortuary records say Newt Workman 16 Jan 1892 - 27 Dec 1917 is buried there, but the stone says simply Workman.
There will also often be "after the reading" markers or burials, such as this one from a recent obit: Cunningham, Joe Foch 28 Nov 1918 - 6 Sep 2004 or burials in different cemeteries with the same name such as this Clever native in Peace Cemetery in Wentzville, MO: Ghan, Clovus L. 22 Jan 1920 - Oct 1968
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