Purified By Fire
Subtitle: A History Of Cremation In America
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780756774530
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Death & Dying
First sentence: ON DECEMBER 6, 1876, IN THE SMALL town of Washington, Pennsylvania, the corpse of Baron Joseph Henry Louis Charles De Palm went up in the flames in an event billed as the first cremation in modern America.