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From: Jabe Fincher <>
Subject: Re: [TOMBSTONES] Position of graves
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:32:42 -0500
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Hi,

This is only a guess. I suppose it would matter where the grave was
(what state). In the South, I would GUESS that the man would be buried
on the north side (and the woman on the south side) as a symbolic
representation that the man was protecting the woman from the north
(i.e. post civil war). Again, this is merely a guess????
Jabe

Robert L. Webb wrote:

>In a pioneer cemetery, where the graves are laid out with the stones on the west end of the grave spaces, if there are two grave spaces for a husband and wife with one stone which has both their names, would the husband be buried in the south space or the north space?
>Thank you for any thoughts on this.
>Robert
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