Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Tombstone Tuesday - The Hoskins Family

When my great Uncle Cromey Hoskins died in March of 1968, he was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. His wife, my great Aunt, Anna May "Mory" Orth Hoskins and was a practicing Catholic and at that time if your spouse was Protestant you could not be buried side by side in a Catholic cemetery. So Uncle Cromey was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Buried in the same plot with him are buried Robert C. (1905-1974) and Beulah P. (1905-1990) Hoskins, his brother and sister in law. 






Do you see the differences in the tombstones for Uncle Cromey and Aunt Mory? Uncle Cromey's is more rectangular and has no adornments except his year of birth and year of death. Looking at Aunt Mory's it is much smaller in contrast and has the daffodil, a cross and her year of birth and her year of death. She also has an outline around her name, the flower, the cross and dates. 



This is my great Aunt Anna May "Mory" Orth Hoskins, she died in 1975. As a matter of fact my great aunt and uncle died in March. Uncle Cromey on March 3rd and seven years later Aunt Mory died on March 7th. Aunt Mory is buried in Calvary Catholic Ceremony along with her two children, William Cromey "Billy" Hoskins (1921-1928) and Majorie Hoskins (1919-1934). Billy died from pneumococcal meningitis and Marjorie died of a brain tumor. Aunt Mory and her children are not buried in the same plot but they are near each other. Both Billy and Marjorie have the daffodils on their stones as does Aunt Mory and her parents, Conrad and Katherine (Wilkie) Orth.

Sources:

Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 12 June 2015), entry for Anna M. Hoskins, 7 March 1975; citing Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning; citing Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, Frankfort, Kentucky. 

Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 12 June 2015), entry for Marjorie Hoskins, 19 September 1934; citing Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning; citing Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, Frankfort, Kentucky. 

Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : 14 June 2015), entry for William C. Hoskins, 3 March 1968; citing Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning; citing Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000, Frankfort, Kentucky. 

Kentucky Death Records, database and images, Ancestry (https://www/ancestry.com : 14 June 2015), entry for William C. Hoskins. 25 January 1928; citing Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm # 994027 - 994058. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.


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