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Henrietta Duterte (née Bowers; July 1817 – December 23, 1903) [1] was an African-American funeral home owner, philanthropist, and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first American woman to own a mortuary , and her business operated as a stop on the Underground Railroad .
The Head Tide Historic District encompasses a formerly industrial, now rural village at the head of tide of the Sheepscot River in Alna, Maine.The area had been industrially active since the mid-18th century, but its mills declined and were all destroyed by 1949, leaving a predominantly residential area with a number of houses dating mainly to the period before 1860.
Levelland is a city and the county seat of Hockley County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,652, [ 3 ] down from 13,542 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ] It is located on the Llano Estacado , 30 miles (48 km) west of Lubbock .
Every funeral procession is led by a civilian police escort, usually by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. [77] Next, the formal, ceremonial aspects of a procession are organized. A funeral procession uses a four-wheeled caisson to transport the flag-draped casket, which was originally intended to carry a 75 mm cannon when it was built in ...
In 2003, 15 percent of corporately owned funeral homes in the US were owned by one of three corporations. [9] The majority of morticians work in small, independent family-run funeral homes. The owner usually hires two or three other morticians to help them. Often, this hired help is in the family, perpetuating the family's ownership.
The coffin of John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, lying in state inside King's Hall, Old Parliament House, Canberra, on July 6, 1945. A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance.
Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas South Plains. The case is considered by ufologists to be one of the most impressive in UFO history, mainly because of the large number of witnesses involved over a relatively short period of time. [ 1 ]
In 1942, Duarte Nuno, now Duke of Braganza, married a great-granddaughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, uniting the two lines of the House. [48] He remained the Braganza pretender until his death in 1976. In 1950 Portugal repealed the law of exile against the Braganzas, [49] and D. Duarte Nuno moved to the country in 1952. [48]