Show 15 carry huge coffin of pound woman merrukk L I 1 it required 15 pall bearers one of the largest coffins ever made and a grave more than 4 feet wide to bury mrs ada smith forty two who died at her home tn she weighed pounds all the funeral services were held at the grae aide in cero eatery roosevelt L I 1 because the coffin 7 feet long 44 inches wide and more than 8 feet high could not be taken through the door of the smith home the body and coffin weighed more than half a ton and heavy chains and a special apparatus were necessary to lower it into the grave mrs smith who gained abo pounds during he illness which caused her death was the wife of percy smith a building contractor |