C. Earl "Dutch" Hulburd shares a gravestone with his parents, Henry E. Hulburd and Ella Knowles-Hulburd.   Dutch was preceded in death by both of his parents and they were presumably already interred in Moberly at the time of his passing in 1952.  His son, Earl "Bud" S. Hulburd, also preceded him in death by 2 years.  If Dutch's parents already had grave stones they must have been replaced after Dutch's death but his son's stone was not.  Why this was done is not known.   I suspect that the common grave stone (Dutch and parents Henry and Ella) was arranged for by Dutch's uncle (and Henry's much younger brother), Ernest A. Hulburd ("Ernie") in 1960.  A letter from Ernie to my mother that year indicates that he planned to visit the Oakland Cemetery that summer (from his home in Phonix, AZ) to set up perpetual care for the Hulburd and Lukens plots there (where his brother, mother, grandmother and other relatives were buried).  The above photo in the form of a Kodachrome photographic "slide" was found among Betty Hulburd Hine-Alderson's possessions after her 1996 death.  The slide indicates that it was developed (photographically processed) in 1960, the same year Ernie planned to visit Moberly.  I have no recollection that mother visited Missouri in 1960 and even if she did I think it unlikely that she would have had a camera with her capable of shooting Kodachrome slides.  I therefore suspect the photo was taken by Ernie (or at his request) and sent to my mother to show her the new gravestone honoring her parents and brother.  (Note that Ernie Hulburd, who passed away in 1972, is buried with his wife in his longtime home of Phoenix and not in Moberly with the rest of his family.)

Noticeably missing from the family burial plot is Hazel Coudy-Hulburd, Dutch's divorced wife.  There is conflicting information as to where she is buried.  Her St. Louis newspaper obituary (St. Louis Post Dispatch, Feb. 26, 1944) indicates that she was buried in New York City where she had passed away.  On the other hand, her daughter Betty Hulburd-Hine-Alderson indicated in a taped family oral history interview in 1995 that Hazel was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri in a plot with her Coudy relatives.   Finally, a recently discovered  letter written in 1949 from C. Earl Hulburd (Dutch) to his daughter Betty Hulburd-Hine-Alderson reflecting upon the death of Hazel's father (Horace R. Coudy) suggests that Dutch had the ashes of his ex-wife Hazel placed in her father's casket prior to burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.

The Hulburd-Knowles plot (3rd Addition, Block 21, Lot 13A) in the Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri (foreword most 5 gravestones).  The plot contain the graves of (upper stones left to right) Earl Seward Hulburd (1928-1950), C. Earl Hulburd (1888-1952), Ella Knowles Hulburd (1868-1943), Henry E. Hulburd (1863-1945), (lower stones left to right) Elizabeth Seward Hulburd-Hine-Alderson (1917-1996),  Emma Knowles (1844-1902), and Ferd Knowles (1836-1905).  Photo taken December 2001 by Ted Hine.

 The Lukens Plot is only about 300 to 400 feet north of the Hulburd-Knowles Plot. 

(Lukens Plot photos by Ted Hine, December - 2003)