Mourning in the 1800’s

Take a step back in time to December 21, 1883 to attend the wake of 9-month-old Jacob Diehl at Historic Concordia Cemetery, 438 Walden Avenue, Buffalo on Saturday, May 10 at 11 am. The interactive display will be part of a “Mourning in the 1800’s” event and presentation featuring local author, historian
and lecturer Tim Shaw. The event is free.

Discover how superstitions and traditions such as covering mirrors and photographs with black crepe fabric, art made from human hair and mortuary jewelry came to be. Learn about the mourning period for men and women and what the fashions were like. Phrases like “basket case” and “dead ringer” 
had their roots during the 1800’s; hear about their origins.