The ‘Cemetery Info’ page has been populated

(Click on Cemetery name for link to Photo Album)
Bethany Cemetery: McQuaid, Moriarty, & O’Day Surname Burial site.
(If you are in the area and take pictures of the Moriarty & O’Day tomb stones, please contact me via the E-mail link on the Home Page. I will post them.)
Bethany Road, Monson, Ma. 01057

Latitude:	Longitude:
42.10811	-72.31178

‘Find a Grave’ link for Bethany Cemetery
Bethany Road Cemetery is the Oldest Cemetery in Monson. The first Burial was in 1762. Many stones used here came from the Quarry in Monson. From what I have been told, several stone cutters cut and carved their own stones before their death. The quarry closed in the 1940's
Link to Transposed Grave Stone Data for Bethany Cemetery.
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Sound Genealogical Practices Lead to Great Family Stories

I was excited to receive the first comments on my new blog. My reply to one of these comments has given me the topic for my latest post.

Heather Kuhn Roelker said... This is an interesting idea, to pull together the statistics of your ancestors. So sad that the infant mortality rate was so high. Based on these numbers it would really not have been pleasant to be a woman around 1900. Thank you for sharing this.
She was commenting on my Aug 23rd post; Snap shot of my Female ancestors that Immigrated to the USA from Ireland & Scotland, listed on the 1900 USA Census.

I replied…I got the idea when I was transposing data from various sources. I started with an individuals Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and Census records. Then I merged all of the entries chronologically by Family group. That's when the info pops. The number of births by mothers at young ages. The number of deaths in a Family Group, in a small time frame. The age and number of children with occupations of Mill worker. etc...
If you over lap Historical Time Lines you can see the causes, such as epidemics, wars, etc..
Read some Historical Fiction about the same time frame and it all comes together.