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Subject: [TX-CEMETERIES] Burials
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:42:03 EDT

Hi,
This was in my paper yesterday, a column written by Bob Bowman. He has
written about 30 books on East Texas.

"Remedy for a homemade funeral"
"When a person dies, if you don't have the money to have them embalmed or
keep the body from smelling or spoiling, you should buy a nickel's worth of
charcoal, two packs of King Bee tobacco & some whiskey. Beat the charcoal to
fine dust & mix it with the tobacco.
Wash the body, take one half of an old sheet and put the tobacco & charcoal
in the sheet. Put the sheet on the body as you would a diaper on a baby,
hold the body up & pour the whiskey into the body's mouth. You can keep a body
as long as you wish." Don't blame me if it doesn't work.

Gay


In a message dated 6/12/2007 2:12:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
writes:

Depending upon what the person died of and/or the time of the year you
wanted to get the body in the ground as soon as possible. High temperatures don't
do nice things to a dead body. If the person had died of a contagious
disease you didn't want to spend a lot of time taking the body to the nearest
cemetery which could have been 30 to 100 miles away.

Of course many of the states where people were buried on their own land have
counties that are bigger than Mass.

Jim Barrett
Bedford, TX







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