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From: "Debbie Foister" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Fwd: [GA-CEM] Glass caskets
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:05:53 -0400
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you people are fun! Deb
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Fwd: [GA-CEM] Glass caskets


> Great idea!!!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Debbie Foister" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [TXCem] Fwd: [GA-CEM] Glass caskets
>
>
> > I think I'll buy a glass coffin for every family member and just stack
> them
> > neatly in my livingroom. Could use them as coffee tables, maybe even
> dining
> > tables.Throw on a pad, and I'll make a couch as well. What a concept! My
> > future genealogist's will no longer have to search through cemetery
> list's,
> > etc.for their ancester's when they are conveniently and neatly stacked
in
> my
> > livingroom! I wonder which lucky family member I should Will them to?
Deb
> >
> >
> >
> > > That man ought to get some sort of prize ---- I just can't figure out
> > what it should be LOL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Thanks to Linda,
> > > >
> > > > >Spending a pleasant weekend off working on obituaries, I just ran
> > across this article published in The Marietta Journal, Issue of Thursday
> > Morning, March 29, 1888, page 1:
> > > > >
> > > > >GLASS BURIAL CASES
> > > > > Henry H. Barry, of Philadelphia, has for many years interested
> > himself in transparent systems of burial. After conceiving the glass
> > casket, he kept it secret for a long while, until, on October 24th of
last
> > year, it was patented.
> > > > > 'What is the advantage of glass for domiciles of the dead?'
> > > > > 'In the first place, one has perfect preservation. Before
being
> > placed in the vial the patient is embalmed. I may say that the coffin
is
> > devised on the walnut shell principal, in two halves. After my
customers
> > are once securely packed in coffins, I apply an exhaust-pump, take out
all
> > the air and hermetically seal up the aperture. Then the thing is
> > accomplished. I believe sincerely that the whole business will last
> through
> > several generations. There is the advantage that no infectious disease
> can
> > come through the glass. The flesh of the subject will preserve its
> natural
> > tints, and relatives and friends will be able to view the deceased for
> years
> > to come.
> > > > > 'As a sanitary reform it is unparallelled,' he went on;
'tenanted
> > coffins can be piled up like any other merchandise anywhere and stay
there
> > for years. Some people might prefer to keep relatives in their own
> houses,
> > nicely put away in the glass coffins. There is nothing objectionable
> about
> > the idea. When buried in cemeteries, there will be no exhalations
> whatever,
> > and in case of the removal of graveyard, the coffin can be taken up and
> > carted away with no more offense than would be given by so many kegs of
> > nails.'
> > > > >
> > > > >end of article
> > > > >
> > > > >My comment, with furrowed brow: a simple "hmmmm. . . "
> > > > >
> > > > >Linda in Marietta
> > > > >Genealogy is my ONLY business.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Richard Brock
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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