Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — Cremated. [ARTICLE]

Cremated.

Few female minds would possess the fortitude to write such a will as was left by Mrs, Bon Pitman, the wife of the author of a phonographic system, who died recently in Cincinnati. This lady, who was herself a skilled phonographer and a lecturer on the art, introduced into her last will and testament a clause as follows: Inasmuch as I have long conceived it to be the most sensible mode of disposing of my body, I desire my remains to be forwarded to Dr. Le Moyne, to be cremated in the furnace built by him for that purpose at Washington, Pa. In obedience to this request the husband of the deceased proceeded to the place of cremation, where the remains were reduced to ashes and urned. There were no religious observances of any kind, and the process of cremation was performed in the simplest manner possible. The Le Moyne furnace is the one in which the body of the late Baron de Palm was incinerated some months ago.