A March 1960 issue of the Mt. Sterling Democrat published a list of burials in the Becam Cemetery in Brown County, Illinois. It included references to Henrich and Geske Miller, along with their dates of birth and death.
If I’m using this as my source for their burial information and their dates of birth and death, then all my citations should be to this newspaper article–not to the tombstone or records of the cemetery. That’s because when we create genealogy citations we site what we use and in this case I used the newspaper.
I do not want to indicate I saw the tombstone when I did not. I won’t know what is on the stone exactly until I see it.
Note: It turns out the stone indicates a Henrich Mueller died on 6 March 1880 at the age of 81 years 1 month and 23 days. Gesche’s stone is more difficult to read, but the Find A Grave memorial has an age and death date listed–but it’s unknown if that was legible or obtained from somewhere else. If I use this information, I would cite Find A Grave–because that is what I used.
If I get myself to the cemetery, then I can site the tombstone.
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