In a message dated 6/26/2010 2:00:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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I  vote bullshit
I second. It defies any thrifty logic to think that our  forebears would 
spend the time and energy to fabricate a door that was used  only to haul a 
corpse out of the house every 25  years.
Proveittometwybil
 
Twbil ; they not only had mourning doors ;but mourning rooms (to lay the  
corpse  in ) 
 I know we have one on the Cape (circa 1780) ; a weird  liitle  room  7x10  
with one small corner (work window ? ) where  the bereaved could pass 
through one door;and exit through another .
The room is also just big enough to move a coffin in one way and out the  
other ; as long as I can remember this room wuz   always  called  the 
mourning room 
Its apparent that  Death in those days was always part of life ; there  wuz 
no funeral parlors ; 
 meybe the craft of the  mortuary business  was a side  business  to many 
and if you had a mourning room you could count on  some income from it 
We have an 1870's photo of here in Mississippi  with horses tied up  ,and 
the sign above the store sez ; Nails and coffins ; as if it were flavors of  
the  ice creme./ Py 

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