Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — A Remarkable Ivy. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Ivy.

The property ivy has of adapting itself to circumstances is most strikingly illustrated by aa incident related by Miss Strickland. The body of Catharine Parr, buried at Sudley, was disinterred, through curiosity, on several occasions. The last time the coffin was opened, “it was discovered that a wreath of ivy had entwined itself around the temples of the royal corpse. A berry Lad fallen there at the time of the previous exhumatioD, taken root, and then silently, from day to day, woven itself into this green sepulchral coronal.”— Chambers' Journal.