Remember my little friend, Shirley? I noticed today that she’d added a memorial for Owen Glynn, a son of Mary Agnes Basquill and Thomas Joseph Glynn. The burial information seems to have come from Owen’s death certificate, which says he was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.
And that probably would have been fine. I add Findagrave memorials from death certificates all the time. But, also I try to double-check my work by searching for a death notice.
GLYNN. — Suddenly, Dec. 10, OWEN V., son of Thomas J. and Mary Glynn (nee Basquill), aged 9. Relatives and friends, also St. Columba’s Parochial School children, are invited to funeral, Sat., 8.30 A.M., late residence, 2513 N. Opal st. High mass, St. Columba’s Church, 10 A.M. Int. St. Denis’ Cem.
According to the death notice, Owen was buried in Saint Denis Cemetery in Havertown, Pennsylvania. That makes sense, as his father was later buried there, too. And how likely are the parents to have gotten the burial location wrong in the death notice? Versus how likely it is for a medical examiner to have gotten it wrong on the death certificate? I’m going with the parents. So I made a new memorial for Owen, in Saint Denis Cemetery and included the death notice to support it.
Mistakes are inevitable, but some of the sheer number of them made with this family, by one individual, is concerning.
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