When Allan posts to one of my boards, and the burial is recent enough, I try to follow up by finding the SSDI record and/or an obituary, and post that as a reply.
My county library system allows access to America's Obituaries and Death Notices database, which is useful. If he found an older gravestone, I guess I could look for a census record, although that hasn't come up yet.
Thanks for all your work, Allan. I appreciate it!