From James Frederick Egan on 5/15/1999
I contacted Hamilton Cemetery several times and they could not clarify the problem. That would take a funeral director to do the job, and there is no record of one. What I did learn however, was that Emma's grave had been moved from another location in the cemetery to the present site. As were one or two others. These were handwritten on the grave information card instead of typed, and they do not know why. It seems improbable that her family would allow her to be moved. In a letter (about 1906) to his son James, Thomas states that he just had a nice stone erected on the grave of James' mother. The stone also lists his second wife with whom he was separated for many years. In his will Thomas forbids her, or any member of her family, to be buried in that plot. So my thinking is that if she were buried there, she is the one who was moved as she and her family lived in the U.S. James also was involved in a legal battle with her over some of Thomas' money so they probably weren't too fascinated by one another. Anyway, those are me thoughts. We may never know any different, but I think she is buried there, and it really isn't that important to pursue any further.