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Funeral service

Here are entered works on services in the presence of the body of the deceased. Works on services without the presence of the body of the deceased in memory of persons who have died are entered under Memorial service.

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• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Liturgies
• Worship programs

• Funeral sermons

• Burial service
• Service, Funeral

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• An Eulogy on George Washington, Late Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Who Died December 14, 1799: Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at the Request of Their Committee (second editio; Boston: Manning and Loring, ca. 1800), by George Richards Minot (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the Late General George Washington, Commander in Chief of All the Armies of the United States of America (with Washington's farewell address; Newburyport, MA: E. M. Blunt, 1800), by Levi Frisbie, contrib. by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Important Concerns of Ministers, and the People of Their Charge, at the Day of judgment: Illustrated in a Sermon, Delivered at Rutland, Orange Society, August 22d, 1797, at the Interment of the Rev. Abraham Carpenter, Their Worthy Pastor (1798), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Model Pastor: The Life and Character of the Rev. Elisha Yale, D.D., Late of Kingsboro', Drawn Mostly From His Own Diary and Correspondence, Together With the Discourse Preached at His Funeral, January 13, 1853 (Albany: J. Munsell, 1854), by Jeremiah Wood
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Rev. John Todd Edgar, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee (Nashville: J. T. S. Fall, 1860), by First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Tenn.), contrib. by Joseph Bardwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sermon, Delivered at Londonderry East-Parish, May 5, 1816, Occasioned by the Death of John Pinkerton, Esq. (Concord, NH: Printed by G. Hough, 1816), by Edward L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The State of the Departed (New York: Thomas N. Stanford, 1857), by John Henry Hobart (multiple formats at Google)
• Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D. Together with the Sermon, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
• Memorial Customs, Ancient and Modern (New York: M. Shepard Co., 1907)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Burial Service of the Orders of Knighthood as Adopted by the Grand Commandery of Michigan, and Recommended by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States (Detroit: Daily Post Printing Establishment, 1868), by Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Liturgy of Funerary Offerings, trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2006), by Peter W. Sinnema (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1994), by Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief (as originally published in Life Magazine, July 20, 1962), by William Styron (page images at Google)

• Reading Death in Ancient Rome (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Mario Erasmo (PDF at Ohio State)

• Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)

• The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969, by Billy C. Mossman and M. W. Stark (PDF at US Army CMH)

• La Rituel Funéraire des Annamites: Étude d'Ethnographie Religieuse (in French; Hanoi: F.-H. Schneider, 1904), by G. Dumoutier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hidden House: A Cliff Ruin in Sycamore Canyon, Central Arizona (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #29; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1956), by Keith A. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Garuda Purana (1911), ed. by Ernest Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Henry Bradshaw Society (publication series) (partial serial archives)
• Christian Liturgy, by Frederic Henry Hedge (page images at MOA)

• Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler Worship (University of California Publications in History v33; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946), by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, contrib. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hymns of the Ages: Being Selections From Lyra Catholica, Germanica Apostolica, and Other Sources (first series; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1859), ed. by C. S. Guild and Anne E. Guild, contrib. by F. D. Huntington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hymns of the Ages: Second Series (Boston: J. R. Osgood and and Co., 1877), ed. by C. S. Guild and Anne E. Guild
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hymns of the Ages: Third Series (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), ed. by C. S. Guild and Anne E. Guild (multiple formats at Google)
• The Pearl: Seven Hymns on the Faith, by Saint Ephraem Syrus, ed. by John Gwynn, trans. by J. B. Morris (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Verses on Various Occasions (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions (Charleston: Printed by Evans and Cogswell, 1863), ed. by C. T. Quintard
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• De Priscorum Christianorum Synaxibus Extra Aedes Sacras Commentarius (in Latin; Venice: Ex. H. Dorigonius, 1770), by Dionysius Sandellius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Early History of the Liturgy (Cambridge: At the university press, 1913), by J. H. Srawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Celebrating the Mass: A Pastoral Introduction (London: Catholic Truth Society, 2005), by Catholic Church Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (PDF in the UK)
• De Sacrosancto Missae Sacrificio Libri Tres (in Latin, second edition; Patavii, 1755), by Pope Benedict XIV (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mass (San Francisco: Text Book Pub. Co., 1921), by P. C. Yorke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mass of the Western Rites, by Fernand Cabrol (HTML at EWTN)

• Alone to the Alone: Prayers for Theists (second edition; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1872), ed. by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zzehkko Enjit Gichinchik Nekwazzi Ttrin Ihthlog Kenjit Ako Gichinchik Ttrin Kittekookwichiltshei Kenjit Kah (selections from Oxenden and Ramsden's Family Prayers translated into Gwich'in; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1885), by Ashton Oxenden and C. H. Ramsden, trans. by Archdeacon McDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions (Charleston: Printed by Evans and Cogswell, 1863), ed. by C. T. Quintard
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• New Version of the Psalms of David (Annapolis: J. Green, 1756), by Thomas Cradock (page images at archive.org)
• The Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, Faithfully Translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort, of the Saints, in Publick, and Private, Especially in New-England (third edition of the Bay Psalm Book, which was revised by Dunster and Lyon; Cambridge, MA: Printed by S. Green, 1651), ed. by Henry Dunster and Richard Lyon (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, Faithfully Translated into English Metre: Being the New-England Psalm-Book Revised and Improved by an Endeavour After a Yet Nearer Approach to the Inspired Original, As Well As to the Rules of Poetry (Boston: D. Henchman, 1758), ed. by Thomas Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, Faithfully Translated into English Metre: Being the New-England Psalm-Book Revised and Improved by an Endeavour After a Yet Nearer Approach to the Inspired Original, As Well As to the Rules of Poetry (second edition: Boston: T. and J. Fleet, 1773), contrib. by Thomas Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into Englyshe Metre (London: J. Day, 1562), contrib. by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins (without illustrations: HTML at EEBO TCP)

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