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This painstakingly researched and thoroughly engaging book is as much an anthropological and sociological study as it is a historical and folklorist account of death, dying, and burial in the Arkansas Ozarks, covering our part of the country as well as James K. Crissman did Central Appalachia. Including references from legendary Ozark folklorists Otto Rayburn, Vance Randolph, and Mary Celestia Parler, there is virtually no source of information that Burnett hasn't explored--epitaphs, business ledgers, funeral home records, obituaries, WPA questionnaires, health department regulations, oral history interviews, ministers' journals, censuses, mortality schedules, doctors' notes, undertakers' record books, historic photographs, museum collections, and newspaper accounts. Importantly, the book also documents the more difficult to find death-related customs practiced by African Americans in the Ozarks. An enjoyable read and helpful reference, this is a book sure to be quoted and referenced for years to come. --Allyn Lord, director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, Arkansas

This painstakingly researched and thoroughly engaging book is as much an anthropological and sociological study as it is a historical and folklorist account of death, dying, and burial in the Arkansas Ozarks, covering our part of the country as well as James K. Crissman did Central Appalachia. Including references from legendary Ozark folklorists Otto Rayburn, Vance Randolph, and Mary Celestia Parler, there is virtually no source of information that Burnett hasn't explored--epitaphs, business ledgers, funeral home records, obituaries, WPA questionnaires, health department regulations, oral history interviews, ministers' journals, censuses, mortality schedules, doctors' notes, undertakers' record books, historic photographs, museum collections, and newspaper accounts. Importantly, the book also documents the more difficult to find death-related customs practiced by African Americans in the Ozarks. An enjoyable read and helpful reference, this is a book sure to be quoted and referenced for years to come. --Allyn Lord, director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, Arkansas

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Abby Burnett, Kingston, Arkansas, is a former freelance newspaper reporter. She is the author of When the Presbyterians Came to Kingston: Kingston Community Church 1917-1951.

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