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Re: VA-HIST Cemeteries and Burial question
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Although it is not related to my intent of the post which is trying to obtain early information or pictures of either Evergreen Cemetery and/or East End Cemetery both in Richmond and both African-American, I am being educated by the posts about burial customs. 

Thanks 
Eric 


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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen Reeds 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:15 PM 
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] VA-HIST Cemeteries and Burial question 

I missed the beginning query, but, in case it helps someone, here are two examples of late 20th and 21st century American burials carried out very simply, without embalming. 

My conservative Jewish brother-in-law was buried without embalming, in a plain shroud and a plain pine coffin, in Milwaukee about 2 decades ago. 

My father-in-law (baptized Methodist, turned Unitarian) had hoped to donate his body to a medical school, but was turned down because of his various medical conditions. Through  Funeral Consumers Alliance, www.funerals.org we found a funeral home in Lawrence KS that  would handle a green burial in a cemetery there. He was buried in a shroud and a bio-compostable cardboard coffin. Because he had died in Missouri and had to be transported across the state line, a Missouri funeral home was officially in charge and did all the liaison work with the Kansas funeral home. 

Happy to provide details off-list. 

Karen  9/11/2014 
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS 
Peter Kalm’s New Jersey, 1748-1751 
NJ350 Publication Initiative grant, New Jersey Historical Commission 

Princeton Research Forum, a community of independent scholars: 
http://www.princetonresearchforum.org/ 

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