The Macon Daily Telegraph
7 July 1912

EFFORT TO DO AWAY WITH SUNDAY FUNERALS FAILS

Macon People Will Continue to Bury Their Dead on the Sabbath, Sextons and
Undertakers [F]ailing to Agree -- Undertaker says Majority of People
Prefer Sunday to Any Other Day.

An attempt was made last week to do away with Sunday funerals, but it
proved unsuccessful.

The question was discussed by Sexton Hubbard, of Rose Hill; Supt.
Anderson, of Riverside, and the undertakers of the city, and it appears
that the majority favored the proposition to do away with all Sunday
funerals except those necessary.

It was pointed out that to hold a funeral on Sunday there was much work
required by the undertakers and the sextons, and that ministers were
inconvenienced more or less, to say nothing of the laborers at the
cemeteries, all of whom wanted Sunday as their rest day.

On the other hand, as was stated by the dissenting undertaker, that Sunday
was the only day numbers of people could attend funerals, and that nine
out of ten families preferred that day to all others of the week, and the
wishes of families as to funerals of their loved ones should always be respected.

It was also stated by those opposed that Sunday funerals are always more
expensive than those occurring during the week, and with the great
majority of people there is too much unnecessary expense attached to
funerals, made so by custom, for the reason that as there are more friends
able to attend there is correspondingly more carriages.

It was finally decided that inasmuch as all could not agree, the matter
would be taken up at such other time as there seemed a prospect of making
the effort successful.

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