Wake County, NC - Paschal Loyd, 1876

Buried With His Hat On

The Raleigh NC news says: "Paschal Loyd, an aged tenant on Wiley J.
Jones' farm near this city died the other day. He was 73 years of age.

His dying request was he should be buried in the shoes he wore every
day, with his every-day hat on, and walking cane to be place in his
coffin. It was done as he requested. He also asked that the lid to the 
coffin should not be screwed on tight. 

His hickory stick, with a buckhorn handle, was placed in his coffin 
and at the grave his friends unscrewed the coffin and lowered him down, 
hat, shoes, stick, and all."

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer - February 17, 1876

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