Eddy Lincoln's funeral

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Home viewings and home funerals were very much in favor during most of the 19th century. There were even some larger homes that had "funeral doors" in one outside wall of the parlor that allowed a hearse to be backed up to the high doors for ease in transferring the coffin to the hearse to begin the trip to the cemetery. Everything else from embalming to viewing took place in the home until the advent of funeral parlors late in the 1800s.