The heartbreaking record of burial preparations by Oliver H. Bair Company for William S. Hagans‘ wife and infant son. First the arrangements for little Henry:
Then for his mother:
Source: Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, http://www.ancestry.com.
Wilson Daily Times, 12 August 1921.
This terrible dispute over the body of a dead 12 year-old girl took place in the early days of C.E. Artis‘ first undertaking business, Batts & Artis. The death certificate of Martha Lucas, who died of peritonitis, shows that Darden & Son prevailed.
Scuffalong: Genealogy. 