Yes. I was pleSed to see a story about this on CBS national news this week. What we have in Richmond' Shocke Bottom is much, much more than that and ought to be archaeological explored and conserved. Alexandria is doing it right and has an active City Archaeology program.
Sent from Melinda's iPhone (with apologies for any weird typos)
> On Sep 12, 2014, at 2:00 PM, "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In that same sad vein, the African-American segment of the Shockoe Cemetery had a gas station built upon it. I wonder if those folks are still buried beneath the fill or were just hauled away for the bridge when it was originally built across the valley to the north?
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> Lyle Browning
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>
>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Joanne Fenton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Maybe old news but I just saw the re opening of a beautiful small cemetery for free blacks done by the City of Alexandria. They had to tear down an old gas station built over it. Some descendants were located and present. There is a wall with names engraved. Well done!
>> PJFenton
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Eric Huffstutler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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
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>>> 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
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