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Dr. Timothy Clark Smith | June 14, 1821 - February 15, 1893 (Opening Image: Timothy Clark Smith Grave Window, Photo credit: Geoff Howard/Panoramio) Evergreen Cemetery, just off Town Hill Road in New Haven, VT, is generally unremarkable as far as cemeteries go, except...
A collection of early advertisements from The Sunnyside Magazine (ranging 1893-1908) From the RM Squires Collection Sunnyside Magazine - October, 1893 Sunnyside Magazine - July, 1894 Sunnyside...
Southern Calls Vol. 29, September 2020 Funeral Home Director In Residency begins career as Coronavirus Pandemic overwhelms the Industry After picking up remains of a victim of COVID-19, Lily Sage...
Southern Calls Vol. 3, March 2014 After the 1982 season, Paul William “Bear” Bryant, 69, announced his decision to retire, stating, "This is my school, my alma mater. I love it and I love my...
Southern Calls Vol. 6, December 2014 Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin was an actor, comedian, composer and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent movie era. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1913, his...
Written by Alice Adams Southern Calls Vol. 18, December 2017 It was cold that Christmas day in 1929 in Germanton, North Carolina, a farming community near Danbury. But our story begins weeks...
School classmates serve as pallbearers and carry the casket of one of four members of a family who died in the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, from the Central Methodist Church in Fitzgerald,...
from Southern Calls Inaugural Issue - September, 2013 It was unusual, compared to most obituaries, because it ended with the following: "The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m....
SEATED BURIAL CASKET, Patent No. 964439Application filed December 18, 1909, Patented July 12, 1910 To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, ANGELO RAFFAELE LERRO, a subject of the King of...
Che Mah (1838-1926) Striving towards a normal life in spite of an abnormal body, this dwarf was twice married, amassed a small fortune, and died at 88. -- The South Bend Tribune, September 30, 1956...
“. . . We are not here to judge him but to bury him. May God have mercy on his soul.” Southern Calls, Vol. 21, September 2018 . . . We left to go to the funeral and were told that a minister was...
Undertakings Southern Calls, Vol. 23, March 2019 Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell gained worldwide recognition for her outspokenness during the Watergate scandal – a scandal that forced President...
Once inside the church, Kennedy bore witness to the end of a domestic Cold War when he and Johnson took their seats beside Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman. Ike and Harry had been openly feuding...
Southern Calls, Vol. 13, September 2016 Southern Mourning by Lora D. Peppers | Monroe, Louisiana Tucked away in the flowerbeds of the old Georgia Tucker schoolhouse, is a large tombstone, which...
From The Sunnyside | September 1904 Information on The Max Huncke Chemical Company gathered from Brownstoner.com There are chemical companies and there are chemical companies. This one specialized...
From Southern Calls, Volume 6 | December 2014 Excerpts from People Article: D. Michael Land, Forest Ridge Funeral Home, Hurst, Texas The small Kingdom of Tonga, located near Fiji and Samoa in the...
From Southern Calls, Volume 23 | March 2019 In recent days several fires, including Bear Fire, have been raging not far from Paradise. As of September 10, 2020, a total of 7,694...
From Southern Calls, Volume 22 | December 2018 1950 - A fascinating educational innovation in the 1950s was National Selected Morticians (NSM) creation of model casket displays. More than forty...
From Southern Calls, Volume 8 | June 2015 Collecting dust in the basement of the Texas Funeral Directors Association was a hodgepodge of funeral memorabilia and artifacts collected by Robert Waltrip...
From our Upcoming PLACES article in Southern Calls | September 2020 Subscribe by Monday, August 17, 2020 to receive this historic and collectible issue of Southern Calls. Individual copies may be...
Charles Blood -- Dunkirk, New York | The Casket, December 1899 This photo-engraving shows a body laid out on The Blood Embalming Board. The entire construction, together with the drapery, and next...
America’s Unknown Soldier Comes Home to His Native Soil For him, our Unknown Soldier, it is all over; the sadness of parting from loved ones, the long ocean voyage, the grind of the training camps,...
Jonesboro, Georgia | November 4, 1949 Bill Eubanks (R) lost an election bet to O.I. Carroll, (L) when he agreed to ride in a hearse through the streets of Jonesboro. Eubanks not only lost but...
Patent 1,573,268, filed July 6, 1925 | William F. Norman, Nevada, Mo. A grave marker including a rear plate having a hinging bead upon its upper edge throughout the length thereof, and apertured...
The Art of Undertaking | From our Limited Series of prints by Southern Calls “Red clay fills the hole left in our hearts. Only flowers remain as guardians of the grave, until they too wither and...
Patented July 27, 1880 by Edward B. Carter of Huntsville, Alabama To all whom it may concern:Be it known that I, EDWARD B. CARTER, of Huntsville, in the county of Madison and State of Alabama, have...
And the Story of Thomas Holmes, MD The embalming craze took off when an Army Medical Corps colonel (and close friend of President Lincoln) became the first Union officer to be killed. On May 24,...
The desire for souvenirs upon the part of the large crowds lined along the railroad tracks at every point was a distinctive feature of the McKinley funeral train, says the Pittsburgh Post.The most...
Rubber-Tired Carriages for Church Aisles are New Invention Among the many new appliances of the up-to-date undertakers is the casket carriage, upon which a burial casket may be moved up the aisle of...
"A Bully Good Fellow Was He" This photo depicts a “typical” Irish wake, although perhaps embellished for entertainment value -- these stereoview images are collectibles from the late 1800’s. Far...
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