Melissa wrote that Walter White kept cypress lumber for building of caskets. My mom says that it was nothing unusual for folks to rip planks off the sides of their barns to build coffins with back then. Folks just had to make do with what they had. Aunt Lizzie White once showed me a set of cotton combs (do you remember those, Lynn?) that she used to make the filling for the inside of caskets. While I am on this macabre subject, Charlie Fred Dearman once told me that those cypress built coffins are still in the ground, even after more than a century. He said they were usually filled in with dirt and perhaps all you could find of the remains of a person would be a couple of buttons, but the cypress lumber is still there. Charlie Fred would be a great resource for ARDREW!!! Cousin Rdea reminded me that there are graves outside the fence at the 16th, out in the edge of the woods and unmarked. Jerry Eubanks once told me about this and told me where to look to find the indentions in the ground where the graves were. Now, I can't remember where they are or, if he said, who they are. BW