Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — CASKET MADE OF OAK TREE [ARTICLE]

CASKET MADE OF OAK TREE

Indiana Man Will Be Buried in Tree He Saw Grow for 75 Years. Muncie,-Ind.. July g. l —A giant oak trefc he had seen grow' to its present size since he settled, seventy-fife years ago. on the farm on which he died will incase the body of Cary Fenwick, 77 years old. His sons cut down the tree that grew in the dooryard of the homestead and ,are fashioning ft into a coffin. - * , Fenwick. *who was a prosperous farmer, had taken a deep interest in the oak, and when relatives opened his will they found the dtrange request that he be buried in a coffin made from the tree,