This is such foreign info for me because people in the south were normally buried the same day or the next at the latest (before preservation). I can't imagine keeping someone in the house longer than that when it is 98 degrees! Michele From: Cathy Champion [mailto:cacshantih@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 1:30 PM To: TGF Mailing List; Michele Lewis Subject: Re: [TGF] Buried a month later? Hi Michelle, Have you looked up what the weather was like during that timeframe? Perhaps they had a monster snowstorm or ice storm. I remember one here in St. Louis that kept us snowed in for three weeks (I live in the country outside the city limits), and even the city took close to two weeks to dig out from the ice. Perhaps they waited because most of the family lived in areas that were snowed in and the family decided to wait, or maybe a significant family member was away on a trip. Just this week I read an online rag mag (if you can believe the info in those) that Michael Jackson's body was held for over a month because one of the family members wanted her money back that she advanced to the cemetery before she would allow his body to be interred! So strange things happen still today. Good luck on your search! Cathy Champion in Fenton, MO 63026 (near St. Louis) "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction" - Mark Twain --- On Sat, 10/6/12, Michele Lewis <ancestoring@gmail.com> wrote: I know that up in the cold NE that even today they will hold bodies until the spring to bury them because the ground is too hard, I get that. But in this case both the death and the burial is in the dead of winter so I can't figure out why you would wait a month to bury someone.