{"id":248,"date":"2009-07-13T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:28:54","slug":"funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/funerals.html","title":{"rendered":"Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a funeral today for an old family friend that we have known for over 44 years, Axel Ohrn. Seeing people I have not seen in decades Axel’s funeral was a reunion as family and friends gathered from around the state of Connecticut to remember and honor him. He was 98 years old.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Newspapers over the past three centuries routinely carry obituaries and death notices that alert us that a person has died. They also routinely carry news accounts of the funerals themselves. GenealogyBank<\/a> has more than 130 million obituaries, death notices, published funeral news accounts and sermons. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Here are some examples from the 29 May 1905 Montgomery (AL) Advertiser<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"Funeral<\/a>In the 1700s and 1800s it was common for families to print a copy of the funeral sermon as a keepsake and remembrance of the deceased. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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GenealogyBank has many funeral sermons online like this one printed in 1804 on the death of Jonathan Homer, Jr. (1783-1804)<\/em>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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