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Funeral History

Every culture and civilization has attended to the proper care of their dead. The history of funeral traditions and rituals indicates that they have been an important part of how communities and individuals externalized grief for thousands of years.

National Museum Of Funeral History Tour Texas

In early america home funerals were the practice everywhere and each community had a group of women who came in to help with the laying out of the dead visitation was held in the front parlor followed by a procession to the church and cemetery.