While cremation jewelry is coming back into popularity in the U.S. today, the actual history of necklaces, pendants, and other jewelry that contain a small portion of a loved one’s ashes dates back to the time of Christ, when people would carry hair, nail clippings, or even drops of blood or tears within a glass pendant in order to remember their dead. In times when cremation was rare, people instead often kept locks of hair in their remembrance jewelry, and some of these pieces remain today, as they have passed down from generation to generation. Read More »