At 08:01 AM 06/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
All the roots I've seen have been light colored.
Like off white, or gray, similar to a long, grey hair.
I do know that after death the nails and hair do continue to grow, but
for
how long I'm not sure.
Life is sustained by two things, oxygen and protein, both carried by the
flow of blood. When the flow of blood is stopped, so are these
life-sustaining elements, and death occurs. Growth is a by-product of
life, and ceases upon death.
Laurie Morris
Fort Worth, Texas
mailto: lmorris(a)wt.net
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From: mark davis <md9105(a)skyenet.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Hair growing after death?
> First, this off topic by a mile.
>
> But I was at an African-American cemetery in Grant county today. One of
the gentleman there was telling about hand digging graves. He said they
accidentally dug into a grave while digging another grave many years ago and
there was long gray hair coming out of side of the wood casket.
>
> Has anyone heard of this? He said that hair has been known to keep
growing after death.
>
> OK, my next post will be on topic.
>
> PS- 45 stones restored at Eagletown cemetery in Hamilton county. The work
continues.
>
>
> Mark Davis
> 4 Lakeview Ct.
> Hartford City,Indiana 47348
> md9105(a)skyenet.net
>
>
> With malice toward none, with charity for all,with
> firmness in the right as God gives us to see the
> right,let us strive on to finish the work we are in...
>
> A. Lincoln March 4,1865
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