Is the start date of this Cemetery Category correct?

Question

 The US Presidents Project has a number of 886 Errors Died before timeframe.   They are all associated with https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Zachary_Taylor_National_Cemetery%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky

The cemetery began as the Taylor family cemetery and holds the graves of the president's parents, Richard Taylor, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War, and Sarah Strother Taylor; W.G.L. Taylor, a captain for the Confederate States of America and other family members. President Taylor's son, Richard Taylor, a general for the Confederate States of America, is buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.

The start date of the cemetery is 1926 when it got named a "National Cemetery".   While I understand the importance of the 1926 date, should another category be created to cover the people who died before that date and are buried on this location?   How does the project cover these kinds of situations?

Answer 1

For the Global Cemeteries Project we have one category for a cemetery no matter how many name changes a cemetery may have had. 

I have removed the 1926 date as there are multiple other dates that could be used (The National Cemetery Administration site has 1928 for example) and 1850 is mentioned in Wikipedia.

Answer 2

No, we just remove the startdate. That can be explained in the category content and not cause any errors.

Answer 3

The 1926 date (1928 according to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs) is the date in which an act of Congress was initiated by the Taylor family to have the government take title to the family burial site where President Zachary Taylor was interred. So this was technically the start of what we know as the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.

Before this time, it was known as the Taylor family burying ground. So according to the Cemeteries project, the date of 1926 (or even 1928) is incorrect. We use the current name of the cemetery, but not the dates associated with that new name. So the date (if one is given on the category) should be the of the year of the earliest known burial, which I believe is his mother's circa 1822.

Answer 4

I have several errors of this type, burials before the start date

Category: Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Massachusetts

. Either the start date is incorrect or people were moved. People are frequently moved to a cemetery. There should be a way to code a start date that takes this into account so spurious errors are not generated.

Comments

I removed the startdate from that cemetery CIB

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Thank you