Jerry: What did the KY article say they did in the meantime with the body? Something like they did with Gus in Lonesome Dove? Packed them in salt and put them the ice house until spring? Hope this subject doesn't bother anyone......I think it's interesting. Vicki ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Byers" <sreyb@networksplus.net> To: <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [TNGIBSON] Fw: [TNCARROL] FOLKLORE > Several years ago the Kentucky Explorer Magazine did an articile on Death > in the Mountains ... > If a loved one died in the winter time ... the funeral would be in the > Spring Time when the weather was nice ... most of the cemeteries in the > mountainest areas would be on the mountainsides.. and not in the valleys > because of flooding in the springtime... > Jerry in Kansas >