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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Burial Expenses
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:29:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040601173842.03a5ea48@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Yeah, but what isn't of interest to you as a researcher (who knows that a
horse drawn carriage in 1880 isn't a big deal) might be of interest to your
nephew who is reading the report in 2017. <G>

Teresa Ghee Elliott
Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG 5.1 is
probably due to customization on my part.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:54 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Burial Expenses

Teresa Ghee Elliott wrote:
>The main reason to put it in is just because it's interesting. <G> A
shirt
>for $2.00. Or that he built his own casket. Or that he had a horse drawn
>carriage instead of a hearse.

A horse drawn carriage in 1880 -- not very interesting to me. But in
November 1963 -- yes!! Especially if the carriage was preceded by a
riderless horse having upside down boots placed in the stirrups. <g>

Similarly the cost of a shirt may or may not be interesting. That he built
his own casket would be interesting -- especially if was the same day or
the day before. <g>

A very close friend of our family left instructions that she was to be
"buried in a plain pine box" and she was (much to the dismay of the funeral
director <g>).

>In most cases, it gets listed in probate because it is one of the bills
that
>has to be paid out of the estate. It can tell you either A) how wealthy
>your ancestor was, or B) how gullible his widow was. ;)

Or how good a salesperson the funeral director was. Or what the law
required.

Still, for _most_ cases, I would not find this of interest unless I either
(a) knew the average funeral costs of the time in that locality, and (b)
knew what the details of the funeral costs were. The costs of a funeral
can include a myriad different items -- many of which may not really be
related to the funeral depending on the person/family and the funeral
director.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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