The detainees ranged in age a few weeks, born in “Assembly Centers” to the elderly in their 90s. Of the adults, about 1,800 had worked in small wholesale and retail businesses, 1,200 in agriculture, and over 1,000 in personal services. There were students, professors, construction workers, artists, and plumbers. The camp population peaked in Oct. 1942 at 10,872. There were 552 children born in the camp hospital. There were 183 deaths at Heart Mtn. A few of the deceased internees were buried in the Powell Cemetery and the majority were cremated. When the camp closed the remains were exhumed and shipped back to the West Coast of wherever. A few of the deceased internees were buried in the Powell cemetery, where they remain today. For those deceased detainees without family at Heart Mtn., there was a Japanese American custom of “koden” wherein those attending the funeral would bring a cash offering in an envelope to pay for the funeral costs and burial: a form of social insurance the Issei immigrants brought with them from Japan.