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The RV.


This all began in 2017, but we'll jump ahead to New Years Eve 2023 when 70-year-old Robert Rea, owner of Nettle Creek Farm & Nursery, in Salem, Ohio suffered a stroke and his son made a phone call for an ambulance.
By the time medical help arrived, Robert Rea had passed away.

Two days later the son, John Rea, showed up at the sheriff's office and notified them that his mom was deceased and inside an RV parked on the property, and had died in 2017. And his dad had been living with her.

Curious, and because it's their job, Sheriff McLaughlin and deputies went out for a look.

"“I was surprised how intact she was. I was expecting bones,” McLaughlin said..."

Inside the RV was the the "unclothed" corpse of Peggy Rea, wrapped in a blanket and surrounded by unspecified herbs.

John Rea explained that his parents were devout Quakers and dad believed they should be buried together.
A DNA swab was done on John Rea to verify the corpse was his mother. The sheriff's office said something about investigating further.




If this is part of Quaker custom, this can't be the first time this has happened?




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Nettle Creek Farm & Nursery at 34718 Salem Grange Road.





Quakerism started in England in 1650, and here's some interesting things about them:

In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa.

The internet says that James Dean, Joan Baez, Richard Nixon and David Byrne were all raised in Quaker households.

The Quakers are conscientious objectors and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.

Quakers founded banks and financial institutions, including Barclays, Lloyds, and Friends Provident; manufacturers including the footwear firm of C. & J. Clark and the big three British confectionery makers Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry.
I'm too lazy to look into Quaker Oats.


If you have an overwhelming and sudden urge to wear shoes, eat chocolate or start a checking account, here's those websites for you:





 
Oats??

Did no one miss this lady at all? Like, for 6yrs, nobody wanted to know what happened to Peggy?
It sounds like the family did know, I think this is a super weird thing to do but it appears to me this was an act of love and nothing nefarious like a social security scheme.
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I have Quakers in my ancestry. The Mann’s, they had some wild names. When I was pregnant we were doing genealogy and found a relative named Bezaliel Mann, so obviously I called my belly baby Bezaliel Jr. lol
 
Lol.
They did make a variety of herbal soaps at Nettle Farms. I suppose some herbs can keep insect infestations at bay?

Did no one miss this lady at all? Like, for 6yrs, nobody wanted to know what happened to Peggy?

Someone DID ask for a welfare check a few years ago and LE was told she'd moved to Florida.
I guess it's that easy to explain away someone's absence?

It sounds like the family did know, I think this is a super weird thing to do but it appears to me this was an act of love and nothing nefarious like a social security scheme.

Definitely an act of sweetly gruesome devotion.
Most religions, at their core, have common sense. It's unlikely that a couple will expire simultaneously, so I can't help but think he misinterpreted "together" with "at the same time".
Lots of couples are buried next to each other or have their remains comingled. I think. *checking* Comingling cremated remains is not uncommon and Quakers are okay with cremations.


I'm starting to be on a first-name basis with the rabbits I've met going down this thread's hole.
 
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