Civil War Coffin Found In Funeral Home Inventory

Change in nil things - even death seems to he the Hotly of progress. This thought was impressed re eently on J T. Doyne. Jr., and Jluhei i Burger, funeral directors of Dovne Funeral Home in Flvrm villt- During an inventory, Mr. Doyne discovered a three-loot in fant metal .coffin, manufactured by Fisk Coffin Company, Spring field. Ohio. This casket, which is rare and unusual, was purchased by Mr. Doyne's grandfather. W T. Doyne. shortly after the Civil War. "It is the same type of cjtffin that Abraham imcoln was buried in Mr. Doyne said The infant cofi.n is msdje in two pieces, molded about the exact shape of the body. It is hand cast of cast iron and painted to look lik' wood -the material most gen erally used for coffins during the time that this one was made. It is joined together by brass screws.