Honoring the dead with prayers actually goes back to Genesis. And also, when Moses and the whole crew were leaving Egypt they took Joseph’s bones with them. If the dead were not important to them they’d a left him.
42 posted on 11/02/2014 4:16:09 PM PST by Slyfox
(To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)