Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics; to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrisonrsquo;s father and the notorious ldquo;resurrection men.rdquo; In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these ldquo;sack lsquo;em uprdquo; grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply cadavers to Cincinnatirsquo;s medical schools. And if fresh graves werenrsquo;t available; they lurked for victims in the saloons and the dark alleys of Vine Street and the West End.
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