From The Madison County Musings, Spring 1987 issue: “On October 15, 1937, Aunt Easter Johnson Eubanks died at her home near Japton after a long illness. Her husband, Uncle Sog Eubanks, a religious man hwo had long expressed the wish that he and Easter would depart this life together, gave his daughters instructions for […]

This catalog is full of a number of caskets, coffins, vaults and other sundry items of interest that were sold by “Paxson Comfort and Co.” in 1898.  It was given to us by a recently deceased friend whose father-in-law had been an undertaker at the turn of the century. I paged through it and found […]

Today’s writer wishes to remain anonymous. I had been waiting for my father to die for three years. That may sound cruel; he was nothing more than an old man with dementia living in a nursing home to the outside world. But to me he was a living lie, an evil, a tear in my […]

I wouldn’t mind a memorable, albiet moral, death.  It would give everyone something to talk about.  Years after I’m dead, people would ask, “Do you remember Caleb Wilde?”, they’d say, “Oh, yeah, isn’t that the guy that died ….”.  Here are ten people that have been immortalized in the minds of their family, friends and community […]