I've made several transciptions learly 20th century of newspaper reports of funerals and they often include what was written of the coffin plate. Images come to mind of the cub reporter hanging behind the mourners then swooping in to peer into the grave before the gravediggers filled it in...
The first funeral I ever went to was my mums and I could not watch the burial dont even know what the coffin looked like.
Do they often write more than the age of the person on them
I vaguely remember a dead person being laid out in a room where I lived as a child Sarah think it might have been a grandparent people were kissing it I would not even go near it, pleased its not common these days.
Oh, I can beat that! One of my relations was " great and incontinent whore" lololol.
I've also seen a baptism with the marginal note "Her NINTH illegitimate child". The Clerk has gone through the paper, so hard did he underline the word NINTH!
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