lady in red glass coffin pictures
"Persons viewing the woman, who has been described as in her twenties or thirties, dressed in red velvet, with long brown hair, estimate she has been dead at least 75 years.". At the time of her unearthing, the Lady in Red had been dead for an estimated 75 years yet her corpse wasnt decomposing, and thats because she was preserved amazingly well in a body-shaped casket that was filled with alcohol, a method of preservation that was common prior to the Civil War. You can read the story on-site, but the coffin is long gone. The unidentified woman was discovered a few days ago in a metal, glass-lined casket in a garden plot on Egypt Plantation and near the home occupied by the J. T. Thomas family, Jane Biggers wrote in Clarion Ledger on May 2, 1969. To this day, many facts about the Lady in Red, including her identity, remain unknown. Walter Pitchford, who worked at Odd Fellows Cemetery in nearby Lexington at the time, saw her. Suddenly, the backhoe hit something hard and when the men took a closer look they realized they had hit something pretty unusual, and completely unexpected. Just three feet beneath the topsoil, he had hit a very, very old coffinmade of cast-iron and glass. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. It allowed the next of kin to identify the coffin's occupant without having to open the coffin and release unpleasant odors or even possible disease. undernourishment approximately 3 months before her death. Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. All rights reserved. Drag images here or select from your computer for Lady In Red memorial. Cemetery Road, Cemetery Rd, Natchez, MS 39120, USA. Details like this make some wonder if the Lady in Red and her coffin are indeed fact or fiction. Clues from her clothing and the coffin she was found in indicate she died before the Civil War. She no longer looked as though she had just been buried a few days earlier. Confirmation of this information depended on finding surviving funeral home records. Haunting images of lady in red are among the earliest color - CNN She has no one to pray over her. It will be open to the public.