Date of Award

Summer 1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Peter Stewart

Committee Member

Patrick Rollins

Committee Member

Jeanne Zeidler

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 C57

Abstract

The study of death and burial grounds is not one of endings as much as it is a search for perspective in the continuum of life. Burial customs and graveyards offer a rich thread in the tapestry of local history. From poignant epitaphs to newspaper ads for mourning goods, from stone carvings to grave robbing, a colorful story unfolds; a story whose characters are rich, poor, female, male, black, white, young and old. They are doctors, strangers, craftsmen, mothers-thieves. The fabric of Norfolk's history is woven with their lives-and their deaths. This study is intended to root out the many chapters in that final story, which has been told only in small glimpses, and to bring to its telling both archival research and material culture.

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DOI

10.25777/h9aa-6516

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