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You should check out The History of American Funeral Directing. There were
all kinds of funky devices for preventing grave robbing in the late 19th c.
Apparently many people were worried about being buried alive, as "life
detecting" devices were also installed in caskets. Anyone conducting any
cemetery work should know about this book----a very interesing read and
lots of illustrations.
Habenstein, Robert, and William Lamers
1955 The History of American Funeral Directing. National
Funeral Directors Association.
(Has been revised 1996)
At 07:38 AM 8/21/2004 +1000, you wrote:
There is reference in W. Addison's "Epping Forest" to a Barking man who
invented a spring for securing the bodies of the dead in their coffins (to
prevent body-snatching).
Search on Google turns up body-snatching and barking dogs, but I can't
track down this invention.
Has anybody found one during exhumation?
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American Resources Group
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Fax 618-457-5070
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