This chapter examines historical understanding of dying in the early South by emphasizing its local context. The setting is Archibald Simpson's two Lowcountry parishes, Indian Land and Saltcatcher, circa 1770. In the very public setting of the funeral service, Anglican and evangelical practices frequently clashed, exposing some of the deepest fault lines in the community. The politics of dying made it important to craft and control these stories to block or advance personal, social, and political agendas. Although evangelical and Anglican funerals had some common rituals and drew from many of the same scriptural texts, the similarities ended there. Evangelical funerals featured extemporaneous prayer, singing, a brief burying ritual at the graveside, and a sermon or discourse, in eighteenth-century parlance. In the context of an Anglican establishment and an embattled evangelical movement, death narratives were just as important to legitimating their religion as stories of remarkable conversions and spectacular revivals.