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Downtown Louisburg, pop. 2,576, is in Miami County.
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Speaking of undertaking, it’s been a couple years since I read these books, but I loved them …
“The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade” and “Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality” – both by Thomas Lynch.
Of course, since I kinda grew up in a cemetery, that was somewhat familiar ground – the burying part.
Cheryl, you got some interesting stuff here. The doorways especially. I have to wonder how great that red door to the salon in your other post must be to always shut enough that it can be locked from the outside with just the key and doesn’t have to be pulled harder. I’m so used to my front door changing with the seasons.
And the basement door. For some reason I can envision myself living down there, opening that door to go inside…. Then coming upstairs the next day to open the black door to work in the brick building.
Oh, and I left something out. When I moved to Kansas, that was my first experience that I remember with mixed businesses. Like in Emporia there was a bookstore/cake decorating place. And you could find the records for the Union Cemetery at the shoe repair place. I don’t know where they are now.
I can’t remember others, but know I’ve seen them. But the one above cracked me up: Hardware, fine vehicles, seed, furniture and undertaking. LOL
I love Kansas.
Furniture and hardware stores often did undertaking to enhance sales of fine pine boxes.
LOL! When we first started our Funeral Home, we had a Furniture Store too. Since we were a “Ma and Pa Business” it seemed like that every time we would get busy in the Funeral Home and Millard would leave me in the Furniture Store, either the Sealey Mattress truck would make a delivery, or a truck with hide-a-beds. Yes, the guys that delivered them, got them in the store, but I had to place them in the right places as we did not have a lot of storage room. I was so glad when we got enough business in the Funeral Home that we no longer had to have a furniture store.
I think Hope also had a funeral/furniture place, too.
and,….hmmmmm…the Union Cemetery records are at the shoe/boot repair shop? How did you find that out?
ele, they were when we moved here. I don’t even think that place exists anymore, does it? I think it’s across from the barber shop that I’m not sure is there anymore, I think where the tattoo shop is, across the street from there.
I found out because I visited my husband’s aunt one day. We’d helped them a lot when Larry’s uncle was put into a nursing home, drove them around. I used to take his uncle for drives now and again. Stuff like that.
I was in her house one day and she asked me if I’d like a cemetery lot for us and or our family. I said “Sure!” And it was Union.
I took the deed to the registrar of deeds for Lyon county and registered it.
Then I asked if they could show me on a map of the cemetery right where the lot was.
The lady told me no, but the man at the shoe repair place had the records. He showed me on a map of the cemetery where it was. I dont’ remember his name, but he had the shoe repair place there for years I understand. I don’t think he is there anymore. And I don’t know where the records are.
It’s in the front, nearish the road, so people can wave at us as they go by someday. 🙂
Janet
That is the cemetery where my DH is buried. I was thinking the “shoe repair” shop might be Jim’s Cowboy Shop because they always fixed/refurbished DH’s boots and there’s a man who might work there (Noble Thorton) who does have something to do with Union. And, there’s a little red schoolhouse near the cemetery and it is, of course, Union School.
Yes, ask him. If he has something to do with Union, he might know.
Interesting that pretty little cemetery out there in the country, you and I both have some tie to.
I saw my first scissor tail flycatcher while in there. There’s a little creek by the cemetery too, as I recall. It’s been several years since that all happened.
And the schoolhouse up a ways, lovely mind picture. I didn’t know it was called Union School, and wondered what it is used for today.
BTW, the shoe repair shop was a shoe repair place. I don’t remember other things going on in there. I think they repaired shoes, boots and leather items.
It must have been on 7th, half a block east of Commercial. I coujld be wrong. Next time I”m up there I’ll try to remember to look. But it seems to me that there’s another business in there now.