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Post by Angela on Aug 15, 2009 13:10:36 GMT -5
I saw something I haven't seen before on a death certificate today. You all remember Martha Montgomery who died December 18th, 1929, exactly one week before the Lawson murders. It was at her funeral wake that Charlie Lawson made the well familiar statement that "I wouldn't mind dying if I could take my family with me". On her death certificate the undertaker for her is listed as Walnut Cove Hardware Company. I assume that the Hardware Company made her coffin. That certainly wouldn't have been the place where her body was prepared for burial. In all likelihood it would have been her family, friends and neighbors who prepared her body or P.T. Harrington Funeral Parlor in Walnut Cove. So I wonder why it says Walnut Cove Hardware Company. Her place of burial was listed as Browder Cemetery but she is not buried there. She is buried in the Bowman Family Cemetery.
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Post by debbie on Aug 17, 2009 6:40:40 GMT -5
That is odd Maria, but as we have seen, many mistakes are made on death certificates, and it sounds like they made several. I also find it odd that a hardware store would make a coffin. I wonder if they bought the supplies from the hardware company to make the coffin. I would just naturally assume that their would have been a company that made coffins and tombstones.
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Post by Angela on Aug 17, 2009 9:33:25 GMT -5
Wall Monument Company in Winston-Salem made tombstones but usually funeral parlors such as Nelsons Funeral Parlor in Danbury made or provided coffins. Sometimes the men/neighbors of the deceased, in the community back in those years when Martha died made the coffin. P.T. Harrington Funeral Parlor and Burroughs Funeral Home, both in Walnut Cove at that time also made and or provided coffins. Therefore I'm at a loss as to why the Undertaker was listed as Walnut Cove Hardware. The only thing I can think of is that the Hardware Company had some ready made coffins for sale in their store and that maybe they were cheaper. Or maybe someone who worked at or owned the Hardware store had the lumber for one and just made it for her. It would be interesting to know for certain.
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