Craig Lawson of New Hope mailed me this gem. He writes: “I fell off a railroad bridge in Langhorne on May 28, 1943 and lost my right leg. I thought you may be interested in the hospital cost.”
Indeed, an $83 hospital bill is cheap, but what impressed me more was the letter accompanying the bill: a $10 charge “for the burial of amputated leg of Master Craig Lawson” in Bellevue cemetery.
There's an interesting epilogue to this story. From Find A Grave:
Bellevue Cemetery (Defunct)
Established in 1885, the interments in this cemetery were removed in 1951 to Philadelphia Memorial Park, Frazer, Pennsylvania.
The site laid abandoned after 1951 until the late 1960s, when it was paved over for a parking lot of a shopping center. That shopping center has since been closed, and the site is again abandoned.
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