Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — The Remains of Washington Petrified. [ARTICLE]

The Remains of Washington Petrified.

We visited! Washidgtbn’s tqihjti at Mount Vernon, Va.fsome twehre sailes frttm this city, down the Potqmaq me had the unusual ptfvilegq of tile mortal remains of the imhiort'Al WashIngton. fenib'wni WfnMf ber that the wbst Wdll‘ ofrhe hfis* ftf several yehrs been irf J ’A "’fifiU'fik cdfldltfcki ,jp|| in great need of repair. *‘A fc# diys siqce part of it tumbled into ..tbt WffPil I completely covering thp, earoophagus of Washington, alsq that : ot Hajth4 Washington. Jn order.,’iP. repa\r.t|ie (Jam- v age ip a competent manner, it wasitound: fsefisary po tieniqgp them % fflW .feeiftwa eirresting-pjaqe., conWrung;: ittm&ins of Martha Washington .v«a> removed first, but attracted no attention. „Butthe unusual weiritt: i dfi' tbie onli A ■tsining the remains of Wnshington dfbused the curiosity of the official who Waseupw-'W intending the,worfc of removal; and it was'f decided to open sarcophagus in order-; toittscertaia the cause. This was drae. and the remains were found to me petni* 1 ' fled, iff fact, a solid’ Resembling a status, the'teatdresperfectly tfatortd, With the exception of eyeshnd ehrs 1 , nri irddo bf' .which can be seen. The body is of A difttr ledthS'ly c °lor, and may be sajd to he, a, , soft safd-stone,,which wouMlrkfily break .shouid'an attempt be‘made* io fmqve *it from* the sarcOpbAetis. Ed>vafa jphker, do 61oreil‘man, "wbo upon,the farm since he was ,a. V»r, . and WHO Insisted in the femainsirinn thffcßd tomb to the present one, mfown?*, ’ nsYMCit Is tbirty-joight'jyeam' pMP e At. Jhat time thfty,,hiuA•. jiUhe old,toh)h thirty.mghtyearew wd.. vtfeWexhpmed in,a prqserwW.r beyond all expectation, being .a. sOJid it Compact mass, with the skin drawn tightto file tomb will be completed to-day, and ■thA*sarcophagus is not Jli hlrty to be opte^d Sim for a century to‘*xome, unless, tskf, isl the casotof. an accident, as inthev present instance, and petrifaction will complete its and the remuina of the ; immortal Washirigtoit,>»Wf*hß*Wefc W during as his ton Cor,. San Francisco (/ArohiAJk

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