Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — A MOTHER’S LOVE. [ARTICLE]

A MOTHER’S LOVE.

Gruesome Tale from Tennessee—iu Death They Were Not Divided.; A funeral took place at Rock Island, Tenn., Wednesday, that was the talk of the whole country. The dead wore a mother and her son, and the son had been dead and unburled for thirty years. During the civil war the son was killed at Murfreesboro. His mother declared that she would never part with her boy while she lived, and that when death claimed her also, both should be buried in one grave. She had an air-tight cedar casket made, with a glass top, into which the body was laid. This was placed in a room assigned for that purpose, where tho mother often repalrod to commune with the dead. The body gradually became mummified. Thirty years it waited, an uncanny occupant that gave the house a queer reputation.