Well, thank you Eva. I am sure that there is something that I don't know about Philadelphia history. When I find it, I'll let you know. I really can't sit in the lotus position anymore, though, my old joints can't take it. Commercial: If anyone is in the neighborhood of Ivy Hill Cemetery on Saturday about 2PM, I'll be giving a short talk about General Louis Wagner at a marker dedicationat his grave site. Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights. > Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:13:15 -0700 > From: sfacciol@yahoo.com > To: paphilad@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAPhl] Eva M. Fleischman, b. 1843 > > Gene, you crack me up. Is there ANYTHING you don't know about Philadelphia and its history. All I can imagine is a Three Hundred year old man, much like a sage, sitting in the lotus position spilling out words of knowledge. There is no long period of time before you respond with your answers, they're right there on the tip of your tongue. > > Please, all knowing, never stop. > > Sue F. > > --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> wrote: > > > From: Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> > Subject: Re: [PAPhl] Eva M. Fleischman, b. 1843 > To: paphilad@rootsweb.com > Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5:48 PM > > > > It was not a funeral director or undertaker association. > > It was a burial association, sort of an insurance association. The members paid dues to the society so that when they died there would be a money for them to be buried. This was before the concept of "life" insurance. > > Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights. > > > > From: geneslady@ec.rr.com > > To: paphilad@rootsweb.com > > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:11:52 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [PAPhl] Eva M. Fleischman, b. 1843 > > > > Jane..... > > I don't understand why he would belong to those organizations (funeral > > directors) when he was a grocer. Just doesn't make sense to me.