Alive inside Coffin

[jeff of pa]

The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.), 01 March 1877.






https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=120

 

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[ARC]

Arrrg... that's crazy.

 

[jeff of pa]

Especially Back then, I would think they have all heard a Story of someone
being Buried alive. From what I read there were allot of errors back then.
SO any hint of Noise should have been Investigated.

Some people even Had Strings Tied to their Finger & A bell connected
before the Ground was filled back in the graves

The Improved Burial Case.
Patent No. 81,437 Franz Vester, Newark, New Jersey.
August 25, 1868.


also "Wakes" :a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, sometimes accompanied by ritual observances including eating and drinking.

 

[dognose]

Thats a buzz. Here in Indiana some of the old cemeteries have head stones which are made of metal. I am not sure what type of metal but it does not rust, maybe they are bronze or some copper like composite.

I have seen these from the mid 1880s through early teens

 

[boogeyman]

And the express messenger never slept soundly again.............

Good find on that one Jeff!

 

[A2coins]

Creepy would not want to imagine what that would be like

 

[trdking]

The term wake comes from People watching a dead body after death for a certain period of time to see if it wakes up. True. Today we have a wake and everyone just sits around with an imbombed body. Kind of silly today but it did at one time serve a purpose. My favorite Author Edgar Allen Poe has written many stories of people accidentally buried alive. Creepy SH!T

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

Sounds like a Fisk iron coffin. This one has the glass out. Popular in mid 1800's.

 

[trdking]

Sounds like a Fisk iron coffin. This one has the glass out. Popular in mid 1800's.
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Now that is creepy

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Get cremated; blow in the wind...