Washington County GaArchives News.....Transportation of the Dead May 28 1862
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Central Georgian
 As the peculiar circumstances of the times renders this sad duty to our 
friends often necessary, and generally very expensive, or even impracticable to 
procure iron coffins for the purpose, we would call attention to the following 
simple means by which it can be effected, at any season, at a very moderate 
cost: Take any wooden coffin,and after the body is deposited in it, wrap it in 
a cotton cloth which has been perfectly saturated in tar that has been het to a 
boiling point. This renders it even more impervious to the escape of Effluvia 
than the best iron coffin. This can be placed in a box of much less than those 
usually used where charcoal is introduced, to fill the space between the coffin 
and box, to absorb the effluvia.
 If it is wished to show the face of the deceased, glass can be inserted in the 
lid, and covered with paper so that the cloth can be cut and the features 
exposed, the paper preventing the tar from interferring with the glass. The 
writer has seen bodies transported long distances, in this manner, in warm 
weather, without the least inconvenience.

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