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From: "NANCY JOHNS" <>
Subject: RE: [ILMARION] What funeral homes were used in 1921?
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:09:39 -0500


I was going through some of the "obits" I have on family members in Marion
County. What I noticed was that the ones who died before WW II had their
funeral services either at home or at a organization(lodge) they belonged
to and then buried in the family cemetery. The only way I found a record
of their deaths/obits was to contact the local library or newspaper. I
also got a lot of help from the Marion County Genealogy Society
My grandmother, Mattie Boring Smith & my great-uncle, Frank Boring both had
funeral services(1949) at Queens-Boggs Funeral Services in Centralia and
were not buried in the family cemetry in Tonti (my father probably didn't
know there was one).


> [Original Message]
> From: Cheryl Rothwell <>
> To: <>
> Date: 12/1/2005 11:11:10 AM
> Subject: RE: [ILMARION] What funeral homes were used in 1921?
>
> I find this interesting. When I was a child there was a funeral home in my
> town in central Illinois but most people were buried from their home or
the
> church. I was a child considerably after 1921. <g> Apparently that was not
> the custom in Marion County since they seem to have had many funeral
homes.
>
> Cheryl Rothwell
>
> Logan County ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~illogan
> Central IL Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb
> Clark, Downing, Harding, Lucas, et al
>
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