... Phillis London Tabernacle at Moorfields New Birth Wesley Charles Brattle Street Church Boston Massachusetts anti Catholicism George Whitefield Funeral Customs Memory Studies American Revolution Old South Presbyterian Church George Whitefield’s funeral was a veritable spectacle. He was mourned...

...This chapter describes events in Gray’a life 1957–62. These include his move for Oxford with his family; Gray’ s new parish; the death of Nobel prize-winning author William Faulkner in July 1962 and his family’s request that Gray perform the funeral; riots at the University of Mississippi...

... through its popular culture. The storyline offers a compelling snapshot of America's attitudes to grief and the “celebrity funeral” at the dawn of the 1990s—a period when those attitudes were in flux, due in part to the Death Awareness and Death with Dignity movements; the AIDS epidemic, and reassessments...

...This chapter describes George’s final year. It covers his declining health; the death of his wife in July; his death on August 14, 1897; his funeral services; and obituaries and memorials. Democratic Party George Elizabeth daughter George James Z Mississippi Walthall Edward C Washington D C...

... Kennedy. The chapter details the moment Kennard met his family members again after his cancer diagnosis and years of imprisonment, which only made his family more determined to work for his release. It highlights Kennard's failing health, parole and subsequent passing and funeral. Reverend Malcolm Boyd...

... family planned a private funeral for James. However, for the wider civil rights community, this would not be enough. There was a compelling need for everyone to be able to come together in grief. The chapter then looks at the funeral procession and memorial service for James Chaney. Chaney James Freedom...

... and illustrates the customs and rituals of grief, burial, the funeral industry, and memory in the mid-century South. Students in the course described in the chapter compared Welty’s depiction of death to the works of several other southern writers and addressed complicated issues of burdensome memory, death...

...Notifying the community that a burial was to take place was challenging in communities having only a weekly newspaper. A variety of means were employed: bells, party-line phones, word of mouth, handmade funeral notices. Obituaries, often published long after the burial, contained a wealth...

... for their services. This chapter examines such efforts, as well as the role played by women in the profession, cremation, burial insurance and the creation of funeral homes and chapels that brought about the transition from home burials to those handled by funeral industry professionals. Arkansas Undertakers...

...The complicated process of preparing the dead for burial is now the province of funeral industry professionals, but this is a recent development. Until the end of World War II, especially in rural parts of the South and documented here across the Arkansas Ozarks, members of the deceased’s community...