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From: "Christy Fillerup" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Coffin Maker's Records?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:12:36 -0700
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Using the keywords "coffin maker" in the FHL catalog the following records
are found:

1. Records kept by M.T. Hall of Montgomery and Floyd counties, Virginia (he
was a casket maker)
2. Early coffin maker, F.W. Throp and Throp & Oakley Funeral Home records,
1852-1972 [Hartsville, TN]
3. Funeral records, 1837-1879 [These records are of the coffins made by
Charles Daub, the refer to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and are in
German]
4. Copy of the account book of Isaac Smith, coffin maker of Cape May
County, New Jersey, 1809-1818
5. Births and deaths from Newport and Portsmouth : births of seamen
1798-1799, Job Townsend coffins 1803-1828, Benjamin Pearce coffin record
1835-1841, and deaths copied from Almanac no. 1, 1803-1844 [found using
keyword "coffin", refers to Rhode Island]
6. Coffin book ledgers, 1886-1929 [West Virginia]
7. Coffin book : 1881-1886 [New Jersey]

I have not looked at any of these records, so I can't speak to the
information contained in them.

Christy Fillerup

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Subject: Re: [APG] Coffin Maker's Records?


> There are records for a coffin maker in Cameron County, PA, that specify
> the exact size of each coffin made for a particular person. Besides the
> benefits Mary mentioned below, if an ancestor appears in these records you
> will know his approximate height! Children are often named only as "child
> of (father's name)" but the size of the coffin gives one an idea of
> whether it was an infant, small child or older child. Of course, my
> ancestors from this town used a different coffin maker, whose records did
> not survive. ;-)
>
> Cathi
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Mary Scrudder" <>
>
>> Debbie-
>>
>> I'm sure every record can be different in the information that is
>> available
>> but I have an ancestor who made coffins in Pittsylvania, Virginia in the
>> mid
>> 1800s. He was a wheelwright and must have made coffins on the side. In
>> some of the records he left there is mention of coffins made for specific
>> families, whether it was for a child or adult, and a date when the coffin
>> was made. For some researchers, this might be the only information they
>> have for undocumented children. This is also a great source to place a
>> family, in an area, in a specific time, and some good social and economic
>> information. I think such records could yield great information.
>>
>> Mary Scrudder
>> Austin, Texas
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:]On
>> Behalf Of Debbie Freeman
>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:56 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [APG] Coffin Maker's Records?
>>
>>
>> Hello Chuck & list members,
>>
>> These records sound like a good source.
>>
>> I have not heard of them before now.
>>
>> Could someone explain in more detail about these records?
>>
>> How would you find these records?
>>
>> What information is usually in these records?
>>
>> What time period?
>>
>>
>> Thank You
>> Debbie Freeman
>>
>>
>> Chuck Mason
>> Fairfax Co, VA
>>
>> They also have coffin maker's records from the late 1700s and early
>> 1800s.
>>
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