Roscoe’s
Grave
His name is on the stone.
Someone else is in the book.
Ada wants her mother’s name added beside her father’s. Then the cemetery records stop the mason’s chisel.
Read, compare, and reach your own answer.
Open any paper to read it.
The evidence is on the table.
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Before the chisel
Your commission
Identify the person whose burial is documented in G17, establish their relationship to Roscoe, and explain the name on the stone.
Start with the work order and cemetery index. Compare the references, names, and instructions. Everything needed for this short investigation is on the table.
What should Ada believe?
Choose the explanation the records support. You can return to any document before committing.
This opens the complete answer and ending.
It was his mother.
Miriam Cross is the documented occupant of G17. Roscoe’s name was a memorial. Her burial came later, with Edith’s permission.
- Follow the delivery. The interment entry R04 gives I-431, account U-572, and seal S44. R05 connects all three to Miriam Cross, delivered to G17. Mabel’s separate account is U-573, seal S45, at North Field B6.
- Connect the family. Roscoe’s marriage record, R13, names his mother as “Miriam Cross, formerly Hale, born Dale.”
- Separate a memorial from a burial. R07 orders a stone and foundation, with no remains delivered. R08 records no identifiable human remains recovered from the loss of the Mercy.
- Read the request. In R14, Miriam asks to be buried in G17 while Roscoe’s name stays on the stone. Edith’s permission authorizes that burial under U-572. R02 distinguishes the stone reference S-64 from interment I-431.
“He should not lose his place in the world because the sea did not send him home.”
Miriam’s letter to Edith · R14
A name preserved. Another overlooked.
The records support an authorized burial beneath an existing memorial. They do not require a coffin swap or a false burial entry. They also do not establish Roscoe’s exact fate, the location of his remains, or why Ada was not told.
Enough room for both
Another family. Another secret.
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