Sears

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

From the 1900 Sears Catalog.

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[bradygirl_12]

Sears had everything in that catalog! Kind of like Mary Poppins and her carpetbag. ;)

[stmatthew.livejournal.com]

Either those styles of headstones were very popular and sold everywhere or a LOT of people got theirs from Sears. I see those in every cemetery I encounter.

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Those styles of headstones were popular (not a lot of wild creative variation in most headstones) but it would be interesting to know exactly how many Sears sold in different areas of the country. The Sears catalog was very popular with people out in the boonies (i.e. most of America at the time) because you could get anything you needed shipped by rail, including prefabricated houses.

In urban areas there would be marker and monument companies you could order from locally, but less dense populations wouldn't support that as a specialized business.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea that Sears used to sell headstones in their catalog! o_O You learn something new everyday.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Mr Puppy says that a lot of people bought these and displayed them in their homes. It was a sign of thinking ahead and not leaving a mess when you died.

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Do you have a reference for where and when this was happening? I haven't run across it in any of the funerary history books, at least not as a common practice. If you know of a book or primary source that discusses this, I'd really appreciate it.