Monday, October 5, 2015

Not Grave Robbery Salome Nicely Defiance Democrat 30 March 1899








Salome Nicely







    In 1899, Salome Nicely, a Confederate veteran, passed away at Ney, Defiance County, Ohio
    About a week after Salome had been interred at Moats Cemetery (Delaware Twp. Defiance County). One of the family happened to remember, that the deceased used his hollow wooden leg for a bank. The body was then exhumed and the leg yielded about forty dollars and a thousand dollar life insurance policy.

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