Tanya Marsh, who teaches at Wake Forest Law School and is I believe the leading academic expert in the country on the law of cemeteries, has started the funeral law blog. Tanya started this last fall and though she is the primary contributor the students in her class on the law of cemeteries and funerals are also contributing several entries each to it as part of their work for the course. Check it out -- people are just dying to learn about this stuff....
The illustration is the burial of Latane by William Washington. And at Random Thoughts on History there's a poem about the burial of Lt. William Latane by John R. Thompson (editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and a person I write about now and then).
Waait a minute. I was just reading Peter Carmichael's terrific The Last Generation and I see that one J.A. Latane, wrote a master's thesis at UVA on "The Value of Grecian History to the American Student" in 1851 -- it looks like that's James Latane, who was William Latane's brother. Why hasn't someone talked about this before? Probably because, on further investigation that thesis was written by James A. Latane who's different from the James Latane who was William Latane's brother!
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