Show Will Wilt be Burled In a Chair I Amesbury Mass J Jan n. n 27 The The last request of Reuben Smith an eccentric old man who died here Tuesday is to tobe tobe tobe be carried out in detail and he will be buried in a chair wearing a slouch hat and his bis costly marble tomb will be sealed scaled up by brick masons Mr Smith came here in 1867 from Buffalo N. N Y and nothing is known of his early life or his relatives Through dread of being being being be be- ing placed in the ground he built a marble sarcophagus last fall He arranged ar- ar ranged that his body should be placed therein in a chair and under no consideration con con- was it to be put in a a. casket or buried in the ground The entrance will be sealed up with a wall of brick the outer steel door locked and the key destroyed L. L T. T Bartlett who has haa charge of Mr Smiths Smith's affairs will have every wish of the dead man carried out |