Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — BURIED WITH DUMB FRIEND [ARTICLE]

BURIED WITH DUMB FRIEND

Peculiar Instruction* Left by Englishman Concerning His Place of Interment. Curlou* directions were left by James Griffith Deanden, F. 8. A., with regard to his burial. Mr. Dearden, a Lancashire (Eng.) man, died last fall, aged seventy-three, and the grohs value of his estate is more than J2.500,000. Among the instructions which he left were the following, written on a sheet of black-edged paper: "It Is my will and wish that my remains be cremated and then Interred at the same place where my dog Pompey Is now buried. “The urn Is to be so constructed as to contain the ashes. Failing this, then in the open ground bb near to my dog’s remains as may be, on no account at Barnaick. ,

“I further charge my estate in Southorpo with £SOO In addition to whatever I may have already bequeathed. to the Stamford infirmary, if these Interments are disturbed n r removed, both as regards the dog’s remains and my own, from their present position within a hundred years of thiß date.”