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Hi Donna, With regard to "funeral homes" in Edwards County in the mid to late 1800s, I don't believe they existed as such in the form we are familiar with today. There were "undertakers" who usually handled funeral business as a sideline to another business, such as a furniture store, where coffins as well as furniture would be made and sold. In that period, the "undertaker" would take his wares and expertise to the home of the deceased, often embalm right on the premises, (if they embalmed at all) and set up for "funeral rites" on sight. As an example, I had a great-great grandmother, Isabella (Vallette) Siefert, who died in May of 1895. My own great-grandmother, Sophronia W. (Siefert) Vincent Norris (1888 - 1969) told me that as a young girl in 1895 she recalled that her mother, Isabella, was packed in ice on her bed and taken to to Mt. Zion Cemetery (in south Edwards County) by horse drawn hearse. I don't believe I recall the name of any "undertaker" in this case. Nale Funeral Home in Albion is one of the older ones in the area, in business I believe since 1921. You might could contact them and ask Kent Nale. There were of course, several persons whose names I have run across in probate records who were in the "undertaking" businessin that era. Lois Goodson of the Edwards County Historical Society may be of help here. Good hunting. Gary L. Shaffer in Illinois
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