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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Family Says Funeral Home Returned Organs PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 17 February 2005
MADISON, W.Va. - A family claims a deceased relative's organs were among personal belongings returned by a funeral home as they were preparing for the wake. The family of Charles Quarles Sr. has filed a lawsuit in Boone County Circuit Court against Armstrong Funeral Home of Whitesville, Charleston Mortuary and the state Medical Examiner's Office. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for emotional distress, mental anguish, lost sleep, embarrassment and humiliation. It also seeks to recover the cost of medical treatment they received after seeing the organs.

Quarles died on Oct. 7, 2003. Two days later, an Armstrong employee gave Charles Quarles Jr. two large plastic bags when the family went to the funeral home to make arrangements for the wake. The employee allegedly told the family that the bags contained Charles Quarles Sr.'s personal belongings, according to the lawsuit.

When family members later opened the bags, they discovered that one contained "their decedent's internal organs surrounded by blood and other body fluids," the lawsuit claimed.

"Plaintiffs suffer now and will suffer in the future a horrible final image of their decedent that is forever etched in their minds," the lawsuit said.

The defendants denied the lawsuit's claims in court filings, saying they don't have specific knowledge of the allegations

"We believe the evidence will ultimately show us non-negligent," said Colleen McCulloch, the funeral home's lawyer.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10916680.htm
 
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