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TheScottishMoscow t1_iu3fb80 wrote

I wonder if it was just impractical to get the body back from the USA so they knocked up a grave in England?

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thecastingforecast t1_iu3g7sx wrote

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The expense plus the stink. I doubt many ships wanted a rotting corpse onboard for days on end. They couldn't just pop them on a plane and get them home in a day. By the time passage was arranged and they were arriving in England the body could be weeks old.

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keirawynn t1_iu3ip94 wrote

Maybe they wanted to reunite the brothers in death, despite them being interred so far apart? Or there was family on both sides that wanted a memorial for both brothers.

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Lanigan1997 t1_iu3t3wk wrote

This isn’t all that unusual really. A cousin of my great-grandmother is interred in Birmingham but his gravestone is in Ireland. I’ve seen plenty of graves where one family member died abroad but they’re memorialised with their family in the plot.

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Hattix t1_iu3yn30 wrote

That's a cenotaph, not a head stone. A cenotaph commemorates a person who's body is interred elsewhere, lost, or cremated.

A priest should know this.

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