This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rob Fairleigh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2569.1 Message Board Post: There were no funeral home's in that time period. Most were"layed out" in the home till burial took place. Riverside cemetery in Hopkinsville built a chapel with "receiving vaults" to hold coffins in the winter till the weather permited a grave to be dug.