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2. National Museum of Funeral History - Wikipedia

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   The National Museum of Funeral History is a museum in Houston, Texas, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics that aim to "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The 35,000-square-foot museum opened in 1992.

3. Urn - Wikipedia

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   Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) have been used by many civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated , and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in an early Jiahu site in China, where a total of 32 burial urns are found, [ 1 ] and another early finds are ...

4. Urnfield culture - Wikipedia

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   Urns for ashes and dishes for grave offerings, Germany. In the Tumulus period, multiple inhumations under barrows were common, at least for the upper levels of society. In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single flat graves prevails, though some barrows exist. Bronze urn from Gevelinghausen (Germany) with sun-bird-ship motifs. [117 ...

5. In Texas, how do you know you’re getting your mom’s ashes ...

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   More people in the U.S., including Texas, are opting cremation over burial when the time comes. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

6. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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   Instead, most Mesoamerican funerary art takes the form of grave goods and, in Oaxaca, funerary urns holding the ashes of the deceased. Two well-known examples of Mesoamerican grave goods are those from Jaina Island , a Maya site off the coast of Campeche , and those associated with the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition .

7. Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas) - Wikipedia

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   His wife, Mary Smith Jones, the first lady of the Republic of Texas, died on December 31, 1907, and is buried at Glenwood Cemetery. [20] Two reconstruction mayors are interred at Glenwood: Joseph Robert Morris [21] and Thomas Howe Scanlan. [22] John T. Browne was mayor of Houston from 1897 to 1899 and member of Texas House of Representatives. [23]