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Thread #30105 Message #391741
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
06-Feb-01 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey (Child #201)
Subject: RE: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey
I still don't think that there was any sin preventing normal christian burial, just practical considerations; in such areas, contact with dead Plague victims was simply avoided so far as was possible. They didn't get a formal funeral because they were living in an isolated place and were probably not discovered until they were well past dead.
Malcolm