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Coffin plate · primary-source record

Abner Graves

ca 1900 (style)

Plate undated · stylistic dating: ca 1900 (style) · transcribed from the original coffin plate

Editorially verified

At-a-glance facts

Record type

Coffin plate

Estimated era

ca 1900 (style)

Age at death

20 years

The coffin plate

Inscription transcription

Abner Graves
Aged 20 Yrs
Transcription from the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Researcher's notes

Style note

This type of coffin plate — a simple stamped plate giving name and age at death only, with no birth or death date — was used extensively in Canada during the 19th and early 20th centuries, in contrast to the more commonly dated plates found in US collections. Undated "Aged XX Yrs" plates like this one appear frequently among Ontario-sourced coffin plates in the Ancestors at Rest archive.

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Source & citation

Source type
Original photograph
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-05-12
Permalink
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Image vs transcription
Both — original photograph and transcription on this page

Citation: "Coffin plate of Abner Graves (ca 1900, stylistic)," transcribed and contributed to the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/coffin-plates/graves-abner/ : accessed [your access date]).

The plate itself carries no inscribed dates; the era estimate above is stylistic, drawn from Lorine McGinnis Schulze’s notes.

The original contributor of this record is not preserved in the archive. If you transcribed this plate, please get in touch so credit can be restored.

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