CONTENTS
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt vii
I. ?FINAL? RESTING PLACES
2. David LaRo ?Life and Death in Old Bexar?
3. L. Patrick Hughes ?The Past at Rest: Two Historic Austin Cemeteries?
4. Margaret A. Cox ?Eden Cemetery?
5. Henry Wolff, Jr. ?Buried in Texas: Any and Every Which Way?
6. Jim H. Ainsworth ?There?s Something About Old Country Graveyards?
7. Charles B. Martin ?Who Is Digging on My Grave? The Corps of Engineers??
II. GETTING THERE: RITUALS, CEREMONIES, AND THE PROCESS OF DYING
8. Mildred Boren Sentell ?Most People in Texas Don?t Die?
9. Sue M. Friday ?Oakhill Cemetery?
10. A. C. Sanders ?A Most Unusual Upbringing?
11. Kenneth W. Davis ?Funereal Humor?
12. Herbert H. Sanders ?A Family Secret?
13. Ruth Massingill ?Death Behind the Walls: Rituals, Folktales, and True Stories?
14. J. Rhett Rushing ?Origins and Celebrations of El Día de los Muertos?
15. Jerry B. Lincecum ?From the Gallows: A Confession and Apology?
III. SUPERSTITIONS, STRANGE STORIES, AND VOICES FROM THE ?OTHER SIDE?
16. Charlie Oden ?The Spirit that Walked Toward Hornsby?s Bend?
17. Jennifer O. Curtis ?A Grave Mistake?
18. Robert J. (Jack) Duncan ?Larger Than Life, Even in Death?
19. Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell ?Messages from the Spiritual World?
20. Carolyn Arrington ?Chipita Rodriguez: The Only Woman Hanged in Texas During the Civil
War?
21. Edward R. Raasch ?Oscar?The Friendly Ghost?
IV. THOUGHTS, MUSINGS, AND PURE SPECULATION
22. Leslie LaRo ?Graveyard Meanderin?: Or, Things of Life Learned Among the Dead?
23. David H. Zimmermann ?The Walking Dead: The Role of the Corpse in Western Myths?
24. Brenda Black White ?Grandmother?s Uncle?
25. Hortense Warner Ward ?TheYellow Flower of Death?
26. Karen Clark Ristine ?A Gift of Time?
27. Faye Leeper ?Super Reality?
Contributors? Vitas
Index