Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — One of the Largest. [ARTICLE]

One of the Largest.

Margaret Mullaney, who weighed 750 pounds, died from heart disease at New York. An undertaker found it impossible to put her huge body on ice, so it was embalmed. An ordinary coffin is sixteen inches wide and thirteeu inches high. A plain cloth - covered box thirty-seven inches wide and twenty inches high enclosed the corpse. It took twelve men to carry the coffin down-rta rs. No hearse was big enough to accommodate the coffin, and an under taker’s wagon carried the body to Calvary Cemetery. A grave is ordinarily dug twenty-four inches wide. Ground had been bought for two gra"\e-, giving a.width of forty-eight inches Sixteen of the cemetery employes lowered the j coffin into the double gvavc.