TNWARREN-L Greetings all, We now have a new mailing list to accompany TNGenWeb's soon to be "Sickness and Death in the Old South" project. OLD-SOUTH-BURIALS. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical and/or historical interest in the burial practices in the old south (United States), including disease, monument typology, grave stone types, the culture of death, folklore, and old time religion. It is a public list. But it is not for cemetery queries. In our list name you see the words "Old" and "South." We define "Old" as starting with the mound building period, passing by 1585 (Roanoke) and on to 1920 (post-1918 influenza pandemic). Our "South" starts in Maryland (south of the Mason-Dixon line), moving west but keeping south of the River Ohio, crossing the Mississippi to include Missouri, then south into Texas, east to Florida, and finally, north to Maryland. This covers many years and one large chunk of real estate and it will allow us to cross state lines to study the movement of southern burial customs. Our European American ancestors faced shorter life spans, higher rates of infant mortality, and produced a significantly higher percentage of orphans than we see today. They brought to America their religions, burial customs and unfortunately, disease. Those diseases had a dreadful effect on our First People (a.k.a. Indians). All the above will be part of the list subjects. Our special interest is the box tombs, tent graves, and gravehouses of the old south. These monuments often occurred in the Appalachian Mountains and Cumberland Plateau regions, and especially the piedmont areas. To subscribe send "subscribe" to: [email protected] (mail mode) or: [email protected] (digest mode) ------ Please join us. Fred Smoot