Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — Harry C. Pitcher’s Last Request. [ARTICLE]

Harry C. Pitcher’s Last Request.

Evansville Tribune. , Just before the death of this brilliant young lawyer and orator, the son of the venerable Judge Pitcher, of Mount Vernon, “Harry,” as nearly e\erybody in this section called him, knowing that the hand of death was upon him, wrote the following characteristic instructions as to the disposition of his body, manner of burial, etc. They are as follows: “Drees me in one white garment made somewhat after the fashion of a nightshirt. “Put me in a plain board box with a bag of shavings for a pillow. No paint, no glass, no varnish. “I have long deprecated the custom of putting a decaying carcass in an elegant and expensive coffin. I would prefer to be cremated, but as there are no conveniences here for burning the dead, I must be content with interment. “Let there be no tolling of bells or other manifestations of mourning. “I especially request that there be no bar meeting held over my death, and that there be no public announcement in court. “I do not want any religious services of any' kind, not because I have any prejudice against the clergy. I have had but little to do with churches during life and I do not want my funeral marked with an act of hypocrisy.”