Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-06 | Page 5 | Old Stone Coffin

OLD STONE COFFIN I Mr Mr Ir George Joerdens of Joseph Joer Joer- lens ens Sons Paca and Camden streets ad Bile a a. strange discovery recently As AsI I was rummaging In an store store- I om am he heLme time across acro's a stone coffin of lI Jue design and construction and from front I inscriptions on the c coffin it appears to be be early a century old IThe The location at present occupied by Ir 11 ir Joerdens has been tenanted by various va va- Va- Va rious us undertakers for tor nearly half a cent cen- cen t r Pasted Inside of the lid of 01 the casKet cast cas- cas Ket t was a circular bearing the date ante of It sets het- forth In English type the nitrite merits It of that style of casket 1 It a also jiles that the casket was of English ike and andas was as a sample of those pro pro- by a making casket-making firm In Lon- Lon Uh h. h The printing on the circular Is al almost at- at most roost Illegible The base bast of f the casket Is of a a. very pe pe- pe ilar J s shape and I is made entirely l of Bone The h lid Is detachable e bl but but fi fits Closely Into thu tho body o of the coffin corrIn This i Is also of ot stone clone and Is IB fastened by means M it c screws e The o only portion of the e casket 8 nj t of stone ne Is ea a small Ro aperture or u In et t the lid which ICh Is covered by glass This was Int in- in t tided to give a glimpse of ot the face of ot t the te Ie corpse The Th coffin is about four Cour feet Ceet I Ill iff length one foot wide and weighs over ICO pounds and has hus six handles hewn out tut o or the side When found Cound It was In a per- per f t state slate of nf preservation and retained n much fluch o of lt It Its I orl original poll polish h. h It Jt is doubted doubled I ss such a coffin corrin as this exists at present w coffins of at such Kuch a type have not been bet I lied sed e l for tor seventy-five seventy years earH and never ere re used ed to any great extent The ftc e lining if the casket Is of oC a material which haa has lot jot been en used uRd for half a century Ilow the casket came to be in itt the store store- e oom l Is not known It Is supposed o howver howver how how- ver that It was purchased I edu by some eh ehOn pern perOn per per- On n who formerly occupied the site An M 14 man who h was employed I by an under under- de alter aker ena who h formerly rT was in business at t hat place said that he hI had teen seen the limo amo casket thirty years ears ago ore Baltimore merlean