Land is scarce -- in Switzerland graves are turned over every 20-25 years -- my mother told me that years ago -- so no surprise to me. -----Original Message----- From: Katharina Hines [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] graves in Germany There is no embalming done in Germany. One member of my family past away at 1 pm in his home. The Dr.had to be called, to sign the death paper. He called then the Funeral home. When the mortician came he changed the clothing, of the death person. The person was placed in the casket. The casket was taking to the chapel on the cemetery. By then it was 10 pm. One other time, an other relative past a way in the nursing home over easter. Since there are 2 days of Easter holiday. The Nursing home kept the body in the basement till Tuesday when the Funeral home came and picked the body up, to take it to the chapel on the cemetery. In Germany the funeral service is done, as soon as possible. Katharina > >I don't think there are any bones left by then. I am not sure they embalm >as >would be hurtful to the ecology. I know they are wrapped in white and yes >they are turned. They are not always turned in the smaller villages, but >every place I went that was the case. I wrote an article on burial >practices >around the world last fall and got in trouble for not sticking to >genealogy, >but I felt that it would help you do your research as was quite a shock to >be >so excited to get to Germany expecting 200 years of tombstones and finding >no >old ones. Jerilyn > >Jerilyn Lappin Koskan >Cook Co., Illinois >[email protected] >FTM user > >BREWER-Daniel Belmont, OH, Northumberland, Indiana and Jefferson, PA >DAVIS/DAVIDSON-Marium/Mary b1803 Bucks, PA Mother Rachel Greene >DUSATKO-Barbara, Anton late 1800s Butler, NE >DYE-William, David, Daniel in Monroe, OH early 1800s. >FISHER-Joseph, b abt 1805 OH, last Morgan, OH 1850. Wife Judith Lappin. >Children John, Knight, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, Rachel, Ruth >GRAY-Ogden b 1850 Morgan, OH, d Fulton, IL. Children - Ogden, Lafayette, >Mary A., Cornelius, Elizabeth, Rachel >GREENE-Rachel, b abt 1770, Bucks, PA >HANNA-Archibald, d 1793 Westmoreland, PA Children Hugh, William, Hannah, >Mary >(wed Robert Williams) >KIRK-Elizabeth, Quaker, daughter Joseph Kirk/Judith Knight, wed Robert >Lappin >abt 1790. Chester & Fayette, PA Belmont, OH >KOSKAN-Vaclav, b 1850s Czechoslovakia d Butler, NE >LAPPIN-PA and OH late 1700s/1800s >LEAK/LEEK-MD & Eastern, OH in late 1700s and 1800s >MITCHELL-Thomas Mitchell, b 1770s Greene, PA -d Monroe, OH. Daughter Maria >wed William Dye. > >MONROE-Nicholas Monroe, b PA, died Belmont, OH early 1850s. Children >Curtis, >William, John, Samuel, Mary (Hendershot), Eleanor (Maring), Rebecca >(Murphy), >Miller, George, Richard. >MONTGOMERY-Daniel, d 1842 Vinton, OH Family to Wayne, IL Wife Alice Lappin, >Children William, Mariah, John, Elizabeth, Rachel, Letticia, Ruth, Euphemia >OATES-Sarah Elizabeth born Lewis, WV, adopted Samuel McCluster - to >Decatur, >KS Parents supposedly Elizabeth Puffenbarger/Benjamin Oates >SLUSHER-Frederick, b PA, lived Monroe, OH, d Wayne, IL >SMITH-Aaron 1755/Anna Foster Bucks, PA Children John, Amos, Hannah, Samuel, >Charles, Mary >STARBUCKS-John and Ann Lappin of Belmont, OH >STARKEY - b 1810 PA, wed Belmont, OH >TODD - Wm. & Rachel Lappin, d late 1800s Morgan, OH >WADSWORTH-Alcinda, Martha, Wm., Rachel, Emily, Ruth b Belmont, OH > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com