Eddy Lincoln's funeral

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Wow, interesting! Can anyone imagine having a new home built today and telling the contractor to "make sure it has FUNERAL DOORS built in"?!

Toia, that was my first thought, too!

There's a great, old, Victorian home about eight miles from Surratt House that has a set of these doors on the side wall of the house. They are raised up about 3-4 feet to allow the hearse to get right to the sill. You can see them from the road, but I bet no one knows what they are. Wish I had the nerve to knock on the front door and ask to take a photo.

The house's original name was Christmas House because a family named Christmas owned it. One of the daughters went on to marry into a gorgeous, ca. 1780, brick mansion a few miles away. She was a great equestrian and became a writer on such matters for the old Washington Times Herald newspaper back in the 1920s and 30s. She invited me to that home back in the 1960s, and it was absolutely magnificent. She died without immediate heirs, and greedy nieces and nephews immediately put it and the large farm around it up for sale.