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By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1989, Reprinted 2018, 264 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-640-1. These records are abstracted from two funeral homes in Bedford County, one which was once located in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and the other in Shelbyville, covering a period from 1870's to the 1940's. Given here is valuable family and genealogical information, such as date of births and deaths, parents, place of birth and place of death and interment, often time telling the type of garments the persons were buried in (suits, dress, slippers, underwear, etc..) whether a hearse was rented, or a car (or hack) rented for the preacher. Information as to whether the deceased was married or single, and the cause of death may be included. There are many people listed who were born in the early 1800's
As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier.
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