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

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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.

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Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

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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.

Cemetery denies burial to common-law couple PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 09 November 2004
MONTREAL - Montreal's Notre Dame des Neiges cemetery is reviewing its burial rules after a woman was told she could not bury her common-law husband in her family plot. Réjane Bouge and her partner were not legally married but they had been together for 11 years.

When he died of cancer in July, Bouge was told she would need permission from all her living relatives to bury him in the plot.

"They told me it's a Catholic cemetery. It's special," Bouge said.

She was told the rules at Notre Dame des Neiges cemetery state that a couple a must be married or have been living together for 25 years or more.

But a spokesperson at the cemetery said the rules are now the same as those written in Quebec's pension plan.

"If you have a child one year after you've been living together, you're considered common-law spouse," Johanne Duchesne said. "Otherwise, it's three years."

Duchesne believes the situation was the result of a misunderstanding, and she plans to hold an inquiry. She said Bouge had ever right to bury her common-law spouse in the family plot.

But Bouge did not do that. She did get the signatures but she said it was awkward for her to make the request to her relatives.


http://montreal.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/qc_burial20041109.html
 
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