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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 Paperback / softback - 2015

by Abby Burnett

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Paperback / softback. New. Before there was a death care industry, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased's community. Gone to the Grave documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources.
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  • Title Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
  • Author Abby Burnett
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2015-04-03
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781496804600
  • ISBN 9781496804600 / 1496804600
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.77 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Dewey Decimal Code 393.930

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From the publisher

Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks--and, for that matter, people throughout the South--buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased's community. This process included preparation of the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial ceremony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions.

These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs.

Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed though obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.

About the author

Abby Burnett is a former freelance newspaper reporter. She is author of When the Presbyterians Came to Kingston: Kingston Community Church 1917-1951.

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