Finding info on someone who cant be found

fascinating and frustrating both at the same time! since this is a city cemetery, not affiliated with any church, well, none of the church's here have any records pertaining to that cemetery plus too, they dont have a record of her at all. she was buried with a headstone, but, the headstone was homemade/handmade by someone and placed out there a year later. i'm just about to the point where my own thoughts are that they buried her out there late at night to avoid funeral costs.

the city hall has no record of her and if they did, the records were destroyed in previous years floods. the st. louis genealogy society have the same names i have which i got off of an old cemetery map from back int the 1920's? nope, no death certificate exists for a josie or josephine taylor. all the death certificates from 1910 to 1958 are available online and there's nothing found there either. trust me, i've looked everywhere possible and hit a brick wall every darn time!!! the fascination and challenge keeps me going on this project though. i love it!
thanks for the suggestions!

Oh here's a lil bit I dunno that it means much but it could be a clue perhaps?

http://www.familysearch.org/

there is a Josie Taylor b.1849 d. bef 1949 m. bef 1873 to Robert Taylor b.1846 d.bef 1946 in MO. Perhaps there would be more records @ your local LDS research facility?

snuggle!!! you know what? after posting this discussion, i started getting mad over the fact that this woman was nowhere to be found anywhere and that i'd been looking for her for forever with no luck! after 'copping' an attitude, i went back into the missouri death certificate lists and pulled up every josie, no last name, who died in 1949. nothing. pulled up every smith who died in 1949, again nothing. (temper is flaring now!) pulled up every josephine who died in 1949, BINGO! FINALLY, I FOUND HER! now, heres where it gets stupid. her name is really josephine smith, the informant was a fred taylor. she was a widow when she died, so her husband has to have been a smith. why the person who made the homemade headstone and put taylor on it is beyond me! all the rest of the information matches what i have as far as the date of death. out of curiousity, i went into rootsweb and saw where someone was talking about a josie taylor who was in trouble with the law in arkansas (my josie was born in black rock, ark) for selling booze i think it said. i'm wondering if its the same one, so i posted out there asking for info on josie taylor. i'll see if i get any 'bites' or not. thanks for that website. i found that my luck hasnt changed a bit. i couldnt find any info on her on that site just like i've never found too much if any info on my family. i get the feeling though that the missing family members must have been born and then buried under a rock! LOL!

That is a mystery as to why they used the informants last name. However, how long was it between her & her husbands death? There could of been a possible common law marriage after she had been widowed? Or it was just an error plain and simple.

i found her. date of birth 3-18-1876. given name 'josephine', last name 'smith' but the headstone says taylor. i'm confused as to why they put the wrong last name on it!!!!!! oh well, at least my searching for her is over with!! onward to the next challenge! LOL!

OH TAYLOR IS A COMMON NAME FOR SURE! actually i did find her, her married name is smith, yet another way too common name. i did a search in the death records for any josie or josephine who died in the year on her stone. went through all of them and found her. apparently 'taylor' was her caretaker in her elderly years since she was a widow and when he made her stone, he put HIS last name on it instead of her married name! (if i could find him, i'd strangle him!!) so my mystery is solved!!

sorry for the slow response. charter has been giving me fits, i keep losing my connection to the internet. its been going on for a month now. monday they either fix it right or they can take their equipment when they leave, modem, cable tv box, everything!!