In Colonial America mourning was simple; no special clothing and no elaborate meals or wakes. When a person died, the family buried them simply and with little ceremony. During the early 1800s, when a death occurred, a carpenter was asked to build a coffin. The deceased was dressed in a shroud and laid out at …
Thank you Family History Daily for the opportunity to spread the “genealogy fever” that infects the beginning, as well as the more advanced, genealogy writer. I believe that every family has its sentinel whom records oft forgotten legends thus translating those family members recorded in words to posterity, creating immortality. My epiphany happened on a …
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