Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Unique Funeral Ceremony. [ARTICLE]

Unique Funeral Ceremony.

Georg** Ilendel. aged eighty-three years, of Royal Center, near Wabash. Ind.. has made arrangements for his cremation in order to prevent his bfing buried alive, says the Chicago Tribune. He has a coffin of hardwood lined with iron and has directed that his body be placed in this and set upon a pyre of dry wood soaked in kerosene and burned until the body Is reduced to ashes.