Posted by:
matt
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Date: February 09, 2019 02:54PM
Amyjo Wrote:
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> That was very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It
> was appalling to learn that the war dead of
> Napoleonic wars were valued for their teeth to be
> turned into dentures. Or bones for fertilizer.
>
> Respect for the war dead seems to have evolved in
> the 20th century with the world wars and the
> advent of the US war registry unit for American
> soldiers at least to give a proper burial where
> possible.
>
> I've been unable to locate a death record for an
> ancestor who died in Albuquerque, NM in 1881. Its
> death records are hit and miss for that era.
> Knowing its on family records that is where the
> ancestor died and was buried is not the same as
> knowing that's where he did without actual
> confirmation. No cemetery record, no gravefinder
> tombstone exists. Was he buried in a nameless
> grave somewhere that will forever remain unknown?
> Or perhaps cremated? Was cremation even an option
> then?
https://www.cremationassociation.org/page/HistoryOfCremationIt's possible cremation might have been an option.