Forsyth County GaArchives News.....Capt. Andrew J. Lummus' faulty metallic coffin  July 23, 1886
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The Cherokee Advance  23 July 1886 P 3 July 23, 1886

For many years there lived eight miles west of Cumming Capt. A. J. Lumbas 
(sic), a well-to-do farmer, who was held by his numerous friends in the highest 
esteem.  During his lifetime he pre-arranged for the repose of his own and his 
wife's body, when death should claim them, by investing in two supposed 
metallic coffins, for which, it is said, he paid the round figures of $1,400.  
Death stopped at his home on May 19, ,last, and claimed Capt. Lumbas (sic), and 
on May 21 the Masonic order, with imposing ceremonies, followed by the largest 
concourse of people ever assembled at a funeral in that county, placed the 
remains in the high-priced coffin, inclosed (sic) this in a box of marble, 
which rested on a base of masonry two feet high, and left it, as supposed, in a 
state of preservation for all time to come.  But in this particular the friends 
of the deceased were disappointed, for decomposition has so far set in to 
render the atmosphere in the vicinity offensive.  This burrying place is at New 
Harmony Church, where several deceased children of Capt. Lumba's (sic) are 
intered (sic) alongside of his vault or resting place.  A vault for his wife 
like his own stands at his left, and in a box of marble rests a like coffin to 
his own, to be used when she passes the silent gate of death.  It is a matter 
of much regret to the family and friends of the deceased that after such 
careful preparation by Capt. Lumbas, and expense, they claim that frauds, 
should have been practiced for what was supposed to have been metallic must be 
something else.--Cor. to Constitution. 



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