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A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
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St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by a congregation with German roots. In 1992, the church and associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It is also designated a Milwaukee Landmark.
A man is facing multiple charges after Mississippi police say they found him asleep in a car at a highway intersection with marijuana, a gun and a bottle of alcohol.
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Kimberly Cooley-Reyes, 66, falls into that category. An avid gardener, Cooley-Rees found human composting after her best friend passed away several years ago and had a green burial.