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Subject: Re: [PABUTLER-L] Burial procedures
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:14:10 EDT

For lack of a better term, there were sanitation problems involved with the
transport of bodies in pioneer times. Depending on the weather/temperature,
the dead were frequently buried right after death because the only means of
covering a certain unpleasantness was with the use of flowers. The widespread
embalming of bodies for the purpose of shipping them home for burial
originated during the Civil War. Bodies of dead soldiers were sometimes
embalmed on or near the battlefields and were sent by rail to their families.
Presuming that Graham was killed before this time, the only way for his
remains to have been returned to Alleg.Co. for burial would have been if
frozen during the winter. Taking all of this into consideration, he would
probably have been buried where he died.

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