Bill....would you please explain more re how/what Aunt Lizzie made the filling. re Charles Fred and the buttons: do you mean buttons only and no bones? I think the bones would still be there? Lets take this subject one step further: Anyone know why they used to sit up with the body until buried? Well, maybe some out of pure respect, but it was necessary to keep the cats off of it. Cats are extremely attracted to corpses and this aint no old wives tale. They would eat it if given the chance. People have told me this over and over. Sometimes a cat got in and would begin eating the face area. One of the people who told me this was my own mother. She saw it happen. Not the eating - just the cats jumping on the casket trying to get in. Others have said that they remember cats outside the house mewing loudly and trying to get in. What about the "dreaded body bursting?" Ever heard that one. [Hope no one is trying to eat their lunch right now.] I believe the burials are at the southwest area behind the cemetery. Best I can remember no one now knows who was bu there. Rebecca ;;;;Bill wrote: 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