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During the next horrifying 14 months, the plague, funerals were not held; families buried their
stunned Eyam townsfolk quickly buried their dead, own--in the front or back yards or gardens, some-
trying in vain to keep the devastating disease from times using old doors or chairs as biers. Once the
spreading--especially to larger areas like Sheffield last family member had died off, it became the hor-
and Manchester. rendous official job of Marshall Howe, a courageous
In fact, during these mournful months of the villager, to do the burial. He would tie a cord

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