Hi Everyone, Judy, enjoyed reading your post on Mortuary in the 1900's. My maternal grandma, Suphronia Dee CHANEY HAMILTON, told stories about helping to prepare the body of a deceased family member laid out a room in the house. She never went into detail just washing and dressing. If the lady didn't have a nice dress, grandma said they would take a piece of good cloth and fashion a scarf around the persons neck and down the front of the dress. Maybe tuck it under the arms in some way. This was all done in Armstrong Co., Pa. probably in the early 1900's. George McClelland CHANEY, my great grand uncle, left Armstrong Co. Pa. abt 1881 and in 1889 opened a trading post in Krebs, Oklahoma (known as Indian Territory at that time). There he and his partner sold furniture and hardware. By 1909 he had bought out his partner, moved to McAlester and opened the trading post with a new name. It became Chaney Furniture and Hardware and Undertaking. It was sometime after 1936, when Uncle George died, that his son turned the store into just a funeral home. The family sold the funeral home in 1978. It has changed hands a couple of times since then and today is know as the Chaney-Hawkins funeral home. Lona Laughlin Boudreaux Monroe, La.