Hello I am an historical novelist and, at the suggestion of someone on the Historical Fiction discussion list, I am writing to find out if you can help me with some information I need about how funerals were conducted in NYC during the early 1860s. My writing involves a real character who died in Manhattan in 1861 and whose body was transported by ferry across the East River for burial at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. I need to find out how such a funeral would have been organized, length of traveling time, etc. Any help you can give me would be enormously appreciated! Many thanks Marina Maxwell