The following is a list of "resting places" where our family's gravesites may be found. We know they are not "final" according to the Lord's promise...

In my Father's house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2 & 3

The Recording of a Cemetery
by Thelma Greene Reagan

Today we walked where others walked
On a lonely, windswept hill;
Today we talked where others cried
For Loved Ones whose lives are stilled.

Today our hearts were touched
By graves of tiny babies;
Snatched from the arms of loving kin,
In the heartbreak of the ages.

Today we saw where the grandparents lay
In the last sleep of their time;
Lying under the trees and clouds -
Their beds kissed by the sun and wind.

Today we wondered about an unmarked spot;
Who lies beneath this hollowed ground?
Was it a babe, child, young or old?
No indication could be found.

Today we saw where Mom and Dad lay.
We had been here once before
On a day we'd all like to forget,
But will remember forever more.

Today we recorded for kith and kin
The graves of ancestors past;
To be preserved for generations hence,
A record we hope will last.

Cherish it, my friend; preserve it, my friend,
For stones sometimes crumble to dust
And generations of folks yet to come
Will be grateful for your trust.




Sunset Memorial Park
Edith and Menaul
Albuquerque New Mexico

August "Harry" Erich Stratman
July 12, 1903- November 10, 1987
Father of Diana Stratman Groves
My grandfather

Ethel Marie Price Stratman
January 5, 1905 - October 11, 1972
Mother of Diana Stratman Groves
My grandmother

Diana Faye Stratman Groves
November 7, 1924 - August 13, 1987
My mother

Harold W. Groves
July 22, 1920 - January 20, 1997
First husband of Diana Faye Stratman
My father

Jesse Harris
1920 - February 1980
Faye's 2nd husband

Ava Astor Edwards
October 1913 - November 1979
Mother of Gerald Wayne Lemon

Harley Elmo Tiley
August 1912 - April 1979
Step father of Gerald Wayne Lemon



M&O Cemetery
Masonic-Oddfellow Cemetery
Benton, Illinois

Mary Isabell Fletcher Price May 17, 1873 - June 18, 1937
Ethel's mother

David Zion Price
December 19, 1875 - June 26, 1959
Ethel's father

Wihlamenia Klein Stratman
May 21, 1876 - January 1966
Harry's mother

Fredrick Wilhelm Stratman
October 17, 1876 - September 11 1933
Harry's father


Oak Grove Cemetery
14th and Floundry
Paducah, Kentucky

Martha Riddle
June 22, 1840 -March 31, 1933
Ethel's maternal grandmother



Big Ridge Cemetery
Saline County, Illinois

David Price
- December 25, 1821 - April 16, 1900
Ethel's paternal grandfather

Eliza Summers
- December 25, 1872
1st wife of David R. Price

Leatha Harper Rawlins
October 8, 1811 - November 12, 1899
Ethel's paternal great grandmother



Camp Butler National Cemetery
Springfield, Illinois

William Groves
February 17, 1878 - March 22, 1946
Harold's father



Fairlawn Cemetery
Springfield, Illinois

Vandelia M. Miller
October 1897 - July 8, 1951
Harold's mother



Parmley's Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
Eadsville, Kentucky

Nancy Ida Hart Miller
March 5, 1872 - June 29, 1929
Harold's maternal grandmother

General George Wahsington Miller
January 5, 1858 - April 12, 1928
Harold's maternal grandfather



Oak Ridge Cemetery
Springfield, Illinois

Daniel Tucker Groves
February 8, 1853 - December 28, 1913
Harold's paternal grandfather


Nelson Family Cemetery
Grant Co., Kentucky

George W. Groves
1820- Septembe 25, 1890
Harold's paternal great grandfather

William Noah Groves
November 16, 1846 - March 31, 1880
Harolds paternal great uncle


Buffalo Grove Cemetery
Louisiana, Missouri

Roland Burbridge
1745 - February 4, 1842
Emil's 4th great paternal grandfather

Jane Wells Burbridge
1750 - March 9, 1835
Emil's 4th great paternal grandmother

Thomas Burbridge
March 26, 1783- August 7, 1866
Emil's 5th great uncle. Roland's son

Sarah Burbridge
- March 30, 1871



West Cemetery Mausoleum
Pittsfield, Illinois

Thomas Jefferson Burbridge
November 30, 1858 - August 21, 1926
Emil's great paternal grandfather

Alice Jane Maine Burbridge
December 25,1862 - June 10, 1947
Emil's great paternal grandmother

Floyd Ira Burbridge
April 12, 1885 - October 12, 1958
Emil's paternal grandfather



Broken Bow Cemetery
Broken Bow, Oklahoma

Thomas Roy Yates
1894-1979
Paternal Grandfather of Shirlie Yates Groves

Jesica Ryle Yates
1905-1961
Paternal Grandmother of Shirlie Yates Groves



Octavia, Oklahoma Cemetery

Rachel Hilton Patrick
1900-1999
Maternal Grandmother of Shirlie Yates Groves

William Elijah Patrick
1899-1984
Maternal Grandfather of Shirlie Yates Groves



Sugar Creek Cemetery
Braxton County, West Virginia

Samuel Jarrett Lemon
August 29, 1916 - December 29, 1976
Natural father of Gerald Wayne Lemon


Crittenden Memorial Park
Marion, Arkansas

Thomas James Cooper Sr
April 17, 1893 - Feb 11 1957
Father of T.J. Cooper

Viola Nora Clarke Cooper
June 18, 1895 - August 4,1987
Mother of T.J. Cooper

Vioma Corene Cooper Smith
December 21,1915 - March 7, 1995
Sister of T.J. Cooper



Sunset Beach Cemetery*
Sunset Beach, Texas

John Harvey Cooper
February 18, 1914 - January 23, 1993
Brother of T.J. Cooper

Gene Cooper
- April 5, 1993
wife of John Harvey Cooper



Memphis Memorial Cemetery*
East Memphis, Tennessee

Rosa Lee Stone Clarke
December 7, 1871 - April 17, 1954
Maternal grandmother of T.J. Cooper

John E. Clarke
December 28, 1870 - October 6, 1956
Maternal grandfather of T.J. Cooper

William Harvey Clarke
March 17, 1899 - October 10, 1933
Uncle of T.J. Cooper



Liberal, Missouri Cemetery*
Liberal, Missouri

James H. Cooper
1855 - 1910
Paternal grandfather of T.J. Cooper

Narcissis Jane Bolt Cooper
January 18, 1855 - February 12, 1940
Paternal grandfather T.J. Cooper



Friendship Cemetery
West of Goreville, Ill
13 miles south of Marion,Illinois.

Elsie Rosetta Stratman Lambert
May 1911 - January 13, 1989
Harry Stratman"s sister

Richard Lambert

Husband of Elsie Strarman


Camp Nelson National Military Cemetery
Nicholasville, Jessamine Co, Kentucky
Located on Hwy 27 from Lexington to Lancaster

William Tuggle
April 27, 1759 - July 05, 1834
3rd great paternal grandfather of Harold Groves
The location of William Tuggles gravesite is undetermined
The stone was placed here as a memorial by a direct descendant


Dykes Farm
Clark Co. Kentucky
Mildred Jane Tuggle Groves
1832-1914
Paternal Great grandmother of Harold Groves
Mother of Daniel Tucker Groves




Cicero Cemetery
Cicero, Indiana
Western edge of Cicero on the south side of Hwy, 236th Street

Section 1, Row 9, grave 35
Annin Wiggins Dewey
October 14, 1818 - January 14, 1871
2nd great grandfather of Emil Burbridge

Catherine Benjamin Dewey
October 16, 1819 - November 12 1890
2nd great grandmother of Emil Burbridge

Nathaniel B. Dewey
January 24, 1844 - October 10, 1930
2nd great uncle of Emil Burbridge

Mary Ritchie Dewey
December 01, 1856 - 1940
wife of Nathaniel B. Dewey




Davis Cemetery
Ozark County, near Noble, Missouri

Robert W. Davis
1799 - 1867
3rd great grandfather of Glenna Lou Haslip



Highlandville Cemetery
Christian County, Missouri

James Houston Davis
1872 - 1974
Great grandfather of Glenna Lou Haslip

Mary Ellen Coleman Davis
1879 - 1958
wife of James Davis, great grandmother of Glenna Lou Haslip




*Exact name of cemetery not known

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