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This was also typical in my part of the South. I manage an archaeological
park at Old Cahawba in Alabama that has several antebellum graveyards within
it, and although I've never excavated one of these brick vaults, I am quite
familiar with them, because they are continually collapsing, creating deep,
nasty, gaping holes - which the staff here affectionately calls "tourist
traps." They can be quite hazardous, and we tend to just fill them with
sand as soon as they appear, and hope for the best.
And here's an diary entry about an arched burial vault from March 10th &
11th 1855 by a Methodist minister who was burying his child in his
father-in-laws family plot in Cahawba's "New" cemetery:
"Got to Cahaba about 2 oclock. Carry the body to Mrs. Babcock's. There is
a glass over the face so that it can be seen and it looks quite natural...We
carried the little coffin in a carriage in which rode Lucy, her father, and
myself. The grave was walled up and nicely cemented. It was covered with a
brick arch. "
Linda Derry
Site Director
Old Cahawba
719 Tremont St.
Selma, AL 36701
ph. 334/875-2529
fax. 334/877-4253
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron May
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:47 AM
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Subject: San Diego County Brick Burial Vault
Tim,
In thinking about the only brick burial vault I have seen in San Diego
County, I have some additional info to add. First, the people who built it
came
from the American South.
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