Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Burial of An Infidel. [ARTICLE]

Burial of An Infidel.

Gus M. Setzer died a few days ago at China Grove, Rowan county,North Carolina. He was a pronounced infidel,believing in neither God nsr a future of any kind. Two weeks before his death, knowing his demise to be imminent, he went to a tree near the yard and under it marked a place f*r his grave, giving instructions as to how it should be dug and his mode of burial. He wanted a layer of sedar brush at the bottom of the grave, to be filled ap with dirt. He said that when decomposition set in the sap of the tree would draw him up the limbs and he could perch on the top of the tree and view the surrounding scenery for ages to come. Setzer was perfectly rational to the last.