Tim Eaton wrote:
 
 One subject which would interest me is the idea that social deviancy could be p
unished by mortuary segregation, or perhaps a particular method of burial... any
one
got any ideas on that?
 
An 1876 article from the Arizona Weekly Citizen (Tucson) reveals one such situat
ion:
 
"Quite a stir was created here last Sunday by the finding of the dead body of a
man just south of town. Many people including Coroner Smith went to view it. The
 head was gone and it was generally much decayed. It could not be identified by
anything about it. Next day Coroner Smith informed us that he had satisfied hims
elf it was the body of a man who died last year and was refused burial by his Ch
urch and also by the civil authorities, and that to get rid of it, it was carrie
d and deposited in a shallow arroyo and perhaps at the time slightly covered. Ma
ny of the people of Tucson will readily remember the case, and it is to be hoped
 that a similar one will not be permitted to occur again, because whatever faili
ngs a man may have when alive, his dead body should be properly buried or, as so
me modern reformers would prefer--cremated" (15 July 1876)
 
On two occasions in the last five years archaeologists have discovered isolated
historic burials. In one case, two adult males had been buried together. The pre
sence of a Native American projectile point in the vertebrae of one individual a
nd the unusual positioning of their arms (suggesting rigor mortis had taken plac
e before the bodies were arranged) indicated these men had been killed by local
Native Americans and subsequently buried outside the only consecrated cemetery i
n use at that time (probably in the 1850s). It is thought that the bodies were f
ound by Tucson residents, but they were unsure who they were and so did not buri
ed them in the Presidio cemetery.
 
In the other case, an adult male was buried about a 1/2 mile from the nearest ce
metery. No evidence for cause of death in this case and the individual had been
wrapped in a shroud and was wearing clothes.