J.M. White Funeral Home | Henderson, North Carolina (2024)

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What is the oldest black funeral home in North Carolina? ›

The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes.

Service Corporation International is proud to be North America's leading provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. Since 1962, SCI has been serving families during their most difficult, personal and challenging times.

Today. Today, N.E. "Nate" Hargett, III and Brian Hargett Greene are continuing the legacy of service with care and quality begun by their great-grandfather 140 years ago.

Harris-Wheless Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Services located at 122 West Barbee Street, Zebulon, N.C. provides a choice to all eastern region North Carolina: Wake, Johnston, Nash, and Franklin counties.

On December 10, 1775, Daniel Little died and was laid to rest on land that became the Old English Cemetery in Salisbury. He was the first of many to be buried on the property, eventually donated to the city by Thomas Frohock and located downtown near the courthouse.

With the average traditional funeral in North Carolina costing between $7,000 and $10,000, and that's before a cemetery plot and grave marker are added to the total bill, it's not hard to see why more and more families in North Carolina are considering cremation as an alternative.

Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest funeral home company in the world, with a network of over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

Traditional Funerals was founded by the Jarvie and Dart Families. In 1994 we commenced operations on Bribie Island with a conviction that the local community should be cared for by local families.

Pascal “Paco” Leclerc, who says he owns Echovita, claims that his company's mission is virtuous. He's informing the public of recent deaths, and families, he says, can publish obituaries on his website for free.

The term funeral parlor (or parlour) was often used in the name of funeral businesses, as it was already associated with end-of-life events. The first funeral parlor or funeral home, Kirk & Nice Funeral Home, actually opened in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1777, and is still in operation today.

What is a Puritan funeral? ›

While Puritan funerals were silent, somber affairs, their wakes were lively communal events. The night before the burial, friends and family of the deceased gathered at the house of mourning to partake in a viewing, or a time of watching over the body, to make sure that the deceased did not awaken.

Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest community in the United States founded by formerly enslaved people, has been trapped in a cycle of disaster and disinvestment for decades.

European settlement near the Pamlico River in the 1690s led to the creation of Bath, North Carolina's first town, in 1705. The town's location seemed ideal with easy access to the river and the Atlantic Ocean 50 miles away at Ocraco*ke Inlet. The first settlers were French Protestants from Virginia.

In 1738, when more than 100 Africans had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Fort Mose (pronounced “Moh-say”), the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States.