Some good sites, thanks to Charlotte from TX. Sickness and Death in the Old South http://www.tngenweb.org/darkside/ BURIAL CUSTOMS AND CEMETERIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/cem2.htm Burial Customs in the 1st Millennium A.D. http://tanwayour.calafia.org/burial.html Antebellum Louisiana: Disease,Death, and Mourning http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab8a.htm