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03-12-2018, 10:46 AM
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CHILD WARNING - Vintage Post Mortem
Ada Lorena Krecht, 10th December 1888, aged 4 months 18 days  B. 10th February 1917 D. 15th December 1918  C.1868, Alfred Owens, aged 10 months  C 1886, Robert + Janet Fitzpatrick, b. 5th July 1885, d. 20th April 1886  Charlie E. Morey D. 28th February 1857, aged 17 months and 15 days.  C.1861-1865. Embalming surgeon at work on soldier’s body.  Claudia Severine Groth, b. 30th September 1908 d. 20th February 1911 + Millie Cecelia b. 25th December 1910 d. 21st February 1911. Children of Mrs E. O. Groth Enderlin N. Dak  "Dear little Marjorie for her Auntie Amy."  Died of meningitis because penicillin came the day she died, at 3-year-old sister and Piedad Suarez Faustino Fernandez. The Surrender, San Martín del Rey Aurelio. Year 1950 (not quite sure about the middle part but that's what I saved it as a few years ago)  |
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03-13-2018, 05:20 PM
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Re: CHILD WARNING - Vintage Post Mortem
It was terrible how an illness could just wipe out a houseful of kids back then.
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03-22-2018, 07:30 PM
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Re: CHILD WARNING - Vintage Post Mortem
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03-25-2018, 12:07 AM
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Re: CHILD WARNING - Vintage Post Mortem
The civil war embalming picture is kind of historic. Embalming was not done very often until the Civil War in the U.S. Parents wanted their sons home again, and the embalming trade really boomed. The technique used then (I do not know what chemicals they used) resulted in a pale, marble like body, that was supposedly good for several weeks of travel. I understand that Lincoln was the first president to be embalmed, but by the time he arrived in Springfield, Illinois, he was starting to deteriorate. (His trip home took a long time, with a train trip (Lincoln's Funeral Train) all over the northern parts of the U.S. The engineers on the train were instructed not to go faster than 25 mph normally, and to slow down to 10 mph when passing groups of people who wanted to pay their respects. The entire route was lined with people at the side of the tracks. Even at 2 am or 3 am in the morning, families got up and went to see the train pass through their town. Timetables were printed in local newspapers, giving the time the funeral train would pass through their area. Also, the car that Lincoln's body was carried in, was actually the first special transport for a U.S. President. It was finished for him, but he never rode in it, until he died, and was taken home. It was to have been kind of an "Air Force One" on rails. |
