Happy April 18! Celebrate this special day with three 1898 death and taxes combinations: taxes paid by an embalming fluid company, a casket company, and on a transfer deed for a cemetery plot. Also included, a special added bonus from James D. Gill, the Collector of Internal Revenue in 1898, clarifying just what sort of death certificates require a tax stamp.
DURFEE EMBALMING FLUID CO.
NOV
19
1898
*
Crate that once held Durfee Embalming Fluid
NATIONAL
JUL 8 1899
CASKET CO.
National Casket Company Factory, Oneida, New York
APR 28 1899
The Evergreen Cemetery
ELIZABETH, N. J.
The Red Badge of Courage novelist Stephen Crane is buried near Evergreen Cemetery's main gate.
Still in use in 2023.
Deed for cemetary plot at the Evergreen Cemetery:
From The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, November 3, 1898, now the New England Journal of Medicine. Apparently, official death certificates for use of the state did not require tax stamps. Those for personal use did require a stamp:
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