Well now that makes a lot of sense - actually, her description was about a shed - and my grandfather figured she was talking about something else and referencing the shed that was in the back yard. What I wonder is if she meant in a funeral home - a colder place to prepare the body and store it until burial. That actually would make a lot more sense. Thanks Al. Will keep looking for that obituary. Rod -----Original Message----- From: Al Lenkner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [PITTSBURGH] Surgeon's Hall, Baldwin Township = what today? --=======8457D51======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2D2BCC1; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rod, Burials delayed due to weather, primarily the cold, are delayed but the ceremony isn't. The coffins are usually stored on the cemetery grounds. In 1911, most people were laid out at home but I can't see them laying grandpa out in the shed until the ground warmed up or, worse yet, putting down in the root cellar to keep fresh. I suspect that the body, even then, was transported to the cemetery for safe keeping. I worked as a professional but part-time pall bearer years ago but I don't recall ever having a ceremony delayed for the cold and I've been at funerals when the temperature was as low as 4 below. Al At 11:33 PM 9/24/2004, you wrote: >Always helps me if I actually pull the documents that I have... > >A researcher, a great person who really helped me a lot, checked the >Pittsburgh Press for the days of 13-16 Jan 1911. They got the cemetery >permit to bury him on the 16th of January. But, there is an odd story in >the family about one set of ancestors that apparently were not buried right >away due to a winter storm. Well there are only two potential candidates >for this...one is Frederick Bode and I am starting to think it might be why >there was no obituary in the Pittsburgh Press. > >Post Gazette - well in theory I am in Pittsburgh for a research trip in >November...helping on another project. But, I could search that time frame >while I am there. Carnegie is on the list - Heinz Center as well. > >Rod --=======8457D51======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2D2BCC1 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.768 / Virus Database: 515 - Release Date: 9/22/2004 --=======8457D51=======-- ______________________________

--=======4F263DE3======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-43FD498A; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rod, I don't go back to the time you're researching but all of the funeral homes that I've been in in the last 50 years had their embalming rooms in the basement. The new Slater's on Greentree Rd may be the exception. I don't think it has a basement. Al At 12:18 PM 9/25/2004, you wrote: >Well now that makes a lot of sense - actually, her description was about a >shed - and my grandfather figured she was talking about something else and >referencing the shed that was in the back yard. What I wonder is if she >meant in a funeral home - a colder place to prepare the body and store it >until burial. That actually would make a lot more sense. Thanks Al. Will >keep looking for that obituary. > >Rod --=======4F263DE3======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-43FD498A Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.769 / Virus Database: 516 - Release Date: 9/24/2004 --=======4F263DE3=======--