Posted on 05/10/2017 11:43:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Didn't Bill Clinton say something similar about a Peruvian (?) mummy?
Oh my!
Yes, thanks for mentioning that. In my earlier years, I did a lot of research on The Civil War, and the Lincoln Assassination. I also read many books about him. Gave a lot of my research material, and some books to the museum at Ford’s Theater, and shared everything I’d discovered with authors who specialized in the Lincoln Assassination. It’s a great way to get acknowledged in books, and a free copy of the book to boot! I miss my researching days. I met a lot of great people back then.
She’s dead, Jim.
When I was about twelve, there was a new girl that moved to our small town. She lived with her grandmother, in a “rented” house and not a great street. I thought this girl was the berries and my mother didn’t like me hanging with her. Finally after months of begging, my mom let me walk to her house after school. We had a snack in the dining room and hanging on the wall was a large oval ornate framed picture of a little toddler in a coffin. I could not wait until my mom picked me up and I never went back, scared me to death!
Just imagine, when she was buried nobody had any idea there would be a genetic test to verify her identity 140 years in the future. It makes me wonder what will be possible many years in our future.
In Buenos Aires there is a cemetery named Cementerio de la Recoleta. It is like a city with all the graves above ground in small mausoleums. Each one is unique. Many have glass doors and pictures inside and chairs for sitting. Some have windows in the casket. Many are very elaborate inside and out. It is a fascinating place to visit.
What creeps me more is that anyone would manufacture a casket with a window.
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Perhaps to allow viewing at the funeral without odor at a time when embalming wasn’t normal..
Amazing! I had never heard of this. Here's a good Wiki page with detailed photos
and information on the "residents".
I remember always seeing photos on my Grandmother’s dining room sideboard of one of her dead friend in a casket. She would leave it there a couple weeks and eventually a new one would show up.
Previous gens perceived death very differently than we do. Very
I lived in BA for a year almost 50 years ago. I visited that cemetery several times and it was quite intriguing. There really wasn’t a “creepy” factor to it, even though it was a “city for the dead”. People had so many different ways to honor their families. Some had little “living room” types of mausoleums,.... with furniture and photos and flowers in vases with the coffin there and wrought iron doors and glass to look through. Others were traditional with several coffins and photos on the wall. Lots of artwork both inside and outside. Lots of windows in coffins. Others were completely closed. It obviously made a big impression on me.
A vivid memory is of the package that arrived after my Italian grandmother died. My mother opened the packet. Inside it among the personal effects there were three pictures. My mother held them up. I realized that the feet were bare and the toes were pointed down. I kept turning it sideways, she kept standing it up. All of a sudden she realized they were pictures of her dead mother on a sheet. She cried. I was about 9.
-——Marasmus, huh? In a kid from a well-to-do family? FWIW, Id have someone take a real good look at those remains.-——
And then what ?
Dug up her mom and press charges?
Fascinating.. thanks, FRiend
Been there, interesting cemetery.
Lots of beautiful funerary art. When my family first came to DC they attended the little Episcopal church there; my father told me often about the Adams Memorial, so I finally went to see it. Have spent many hours wandering and photographing there.
They’ve already been poking around. Why do a half-a$$ed job.
The little girl has been dead for 130 years. Just give her a proper burial and move on....
What can be accomplished by doing a full forensic examination?
Possibly discovering how/why she came to be there. Like I asked, why do a half-a$$ed job? Answering the who, but not the why?
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