Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Jewelry In a Grave. [ARTICLE]

Jewelry In a Grave.

The largest amount of jewelry known to be in a single grave was buried in Greenwood Cemetery'several years ago. The undertaker who had charge of the funeral protested against it, but was severely snubbed for his interference. The family had its way, and in that grave is bnjied fully $5,000 worth of with which the body was decked whep prepared for burial. Sometimes families who desire to bury their dead in the clothing worn in life—in evening or wedding dresses, for instance—substitute less costly imitations for the jewelry worn in life, partly from motives of thrift and partly from a superstitious fear that anything taken off a body when it is ready for the tomb will bring ill-luck to future vearers.—[New York Journal.