GDG- Re: Speaking of bullets

[Bill and Glenna Jo Christen]

Linda J. Guy wrote: 

". . . Men did not touch the body of a woman in those days unless they were
a doctor."

Linda, in the nineteenth-century it was very common for family members
(male or female) to prepare the body of the deceased for burial. I would be
careful to read a twenty-first-century interpretation of the Victorian
social culture into your reasoning.

Bill Christen