Surname Search: Br-Bz

The following table lists individuals interred in an Aurora Illinois area cemetery, or whose obituary appeared in the Aurora Beacon News since June 2001, regardless of where they have been interred. If only a surname is entered in any row, click once on that name to view a list of multiple entries with that surname or variation of such.

If you find an individual of interest interred at either Spring Lake or St Paul's cemeteries and the grave location is shown, you can view a list of other's who have been interred on the same lot. Choose the Spring Lake or St Paul lot search pages for this purpose. This is especially important when individuals with different surnames are interred on a lot owned by a single owner. The lot search pages for St Paul's are available but those for Spring Lake are under construction. You can contact the webmaster and request a listing by lot/owner for the Section RG. It is the only section not currently available in the lot search capability. Any available details will be returned to you via email.

For the obituary-derived entries, no Section/Lot/Grave information is available, but normally the dates of birth and death and the age are all given. Spring Lake, St Paul's, and Riverside cemeteries use different record keeping procedures. The result is that information available is inconsistent. Spring Lake keeps death date and age (when available) whereas St Paul's keeps date of birth and date of death information.  Most Riverside entries show year of death only but month/day/year of burial. Likewise, St Paul's uses a section/lot/grave numbering system whereas Spring Lake does not number the graves within a lot. Riverside Cemetery uses Section, Block, Lot, Row, and Grave letters/numbers; combinations of which vary based on the section of the cemetery.

You are cautioned that there are no claims as to the accuracy of the cemetery listings. Data was extracted from hand written records which could easily be mis-interpreted. In addition, spelling in the original entries may differ depending on the person entering the data on the death/interment certificate. For instance, individuals from a Stuart family could be listed as Stuart or Stewart, depending on who entered the data (depends on date of death/interment). You should search for all reasonable permutations of a surname.

DATA ENTRY CONVENTIONS:

1. Names in {...} indicate a previous married name. Names in normal parens (...) indicate a maiden name, or in rare instances, a surname legally changed. Names in quotation marks are nicknames.

2. Dates of death in parenthesis indicate burial date when the date of death is not available.

3. Dates of death without "day" entries, i.e., 9/../1938, indicate that the date of burial is available but only the year of death is indicated. The year given is consistent with the date of burial. For instance, if year of death is given as 1972 and burial is listed as August 21, 1972, the entry in the "Death" field is entered as 8/../1972. If the date of burial is on one of the first three days of a month, the entry will show the previous month. Example: If Death is given as 1972 and burial listed as August 2, 1972, the entry in the Death field will show 7/../1972. This is based on the assumption that burial would take place three or more days after death. There is no assurance that the death dates shown in this form are accurate, it is just an attempt to help narrow the search for obituary data or death certificates.

4. Entries in the Cemetery field that are in parenthesis indicate either the actual place of death or where the individual was living at the time of their death, but only if a burial location is not known.

5. Grave locations within St Paul's, Spring Lake, and Riverside cemeteries show S(ection), B(lock), L(ot), R(ow), and G(rave) based on the way each lays out their section/lot maps. Spring Lake Cemetery has three major "blocks"; E=East Side, W=West Side, and RG=Rose Garden. Individual Sections are lettered for the east and west sides of the cemetery. A previous location identification of Section A-East Lot 24 would have appeared as AE-24, whereas now it is entered as S:A B:E L:24. Also, the term "Tile" was used to identify individual graves within a Section or Lot. The tile number is now referred to as the grave number.