Welcome to the Morgan Family Club's family cemetery records, a part of our main History section. This part of our History section is devoted to cemetery tombstone inscriptions of all Morgan family relatives, including their descendants. It is sponsored by the Morgan Family Club, a national family club for all descendants of the many different Morgan families in America.

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The cemetery records are listed by state, then alphabetically
by county and name of the cemetery. Click on the state in the INDEX below.

Since our space is limited, we cannot put all the cemetery records we have online. The information will probably be changed every so often.

Guidelines for information

This part of our website is limited to cemetery records. For those unfamiliar with family history, this means one of two things -- only the information on a tombstone or, in the case of an unmarked grave, information about the relative that you know of and can prove with other sources and the certainty they are buried in a particular cemetery. Other pages will be added later for funeral home records and other kinds of death records.

Tombstone Inscriptions

The information you send in should be only the words written on a grave stone. Write down everything IF it is given on the tombstone. If the grave has a tombstone, do NOT add information that is not inscribed on the the grave, even if you are personally aware of the facts.

• Kinship: "beloved wife/husband of..."; "son or daughter of"
• Occupation: list any occupation that is on the tombstone (farmer, minister, etc.
• Clubs: Mason, WOW, etc. If the stone has a symbol only, then list "Masonic symbol".
• Military service: copy the exact info on the stone for military service, such as "Cpl., 82 Div., US Army, WWII".
• Birth location: many older tombstones often give the place of birth; be sure to list this.

Unmarked graves

For unmarked graves, the rule of thumb is different--you can add information but only basic info that you are absolutely sure of -- the relative's full name and their dates of birth and death. Make sure of the dates through some type of record. Do not send in info for someone that you do not know where they are buried and no idea of birth and death dates.

Be sure and give the name of the cemetery if known and its location, including the county. If it is a rural area, give the approximate distance to the nearest town.

Format

Try to keep your cemetery records in the following format for easier reading. List the name and dates on the first line. Then give any inscriptions on the line below that. List ONLY the info on the tombstones as such.

For unmarked graves -- place all info within parentheses [ - ] and you can add facts that you are positive of in a line below, such as "wife of" -- also within parentheses. In a few cases, you will find info on a tomb that is also in parentheses. If so, then use the common type ( - ) for this and info you have added only with the squared parentheses [ - ]. The parentheses lets the reader know that this is info that has been added by a researcher or cemetery record compiler.

Give the family name first in all capital letters, then the given names next, followed by the dates on the tombstone of birth and death, all on one line; list any other info on the grave on a line below this. Here is an example:

MORGAN,      John      Thomas       22 Aug 1850       9 Mar 1925
                            Beloved husband of Mary