PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Two curious tombstones from the North

alabama genealogy Cemetery History tombstone

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey

Todd Massey February 20, 2018

Death by thin shoes? Can someone elaborate on this?

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Cherry Woodward February 20, 2018

I wonder, maybe a nail went thru the sole of her show and she contracted tetanus. Sad.

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Carolyn Robinson February 20, 2018

This is from the “Book and Shoe Recorder”, 07/27/1898. https://books.google.com/books?id=8ecxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA129&lpg=RA8-PA129&dq=“Died+of+thin+shoes”&source=bl&ots=4lnspdv3tM&sig=QolIoYU_hAbZrC-FmXsrnASdA9Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAl8bp_rTZAhUF74MKHbM1CfsQ6AEIQTAJ#v=onepage&q=”Died%20of%20thin%20shoes”&f=false

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1. Carolyn Robinson February 20, 2018
  
  Apparently – at that time – thin shoes were seen as fashionable and comfortable. Thin shoes meant that a person who would often have wet and/or cold feet would often have a cold in their head or lungs, soon succumbing to death.
  
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