People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1896 — Raised His Own Coffin. [ARTICLE]

Raised His Own Coffin.

Judge Orin K. Farthing of Ba’tbolomew county, Ind., who is now 87 years old, was in bls day a prominent lawyer and a judge. He is wealthy and eccentric? Fifty-years ago be planted near his front/ doorstep a walnut with the avowed intention of scouring from the tree tipiber tar his ooffin. The tree throve steadily. Tbp other day, feeling strongly the infirmities* of age, the judge ordered the treecut down and sawed into boards. Then the carpenter took his measure and began the coffin.