Salome Nicely of veteran of the Confederate army (Co. H 25 Va.), in the war of the rebellion, Died Wednesday of last week. His funeral on Friday and he was interred in Moats cemetery in Delaware township.
It happened that Salome was wounded during the war, as a result of which he lost a leg, and was compelled to depend on a wooden leg for part of his support.
He had a pocket, or perhaps more properly speaking, a hole in the wooden leg in which he kept his ready cash.
In laying out the body and preparing it for burial this peculiarity of the wooden leg was overlooked and not thought of until after interment.
Mr Nicely had no family and resided during his life time with the family of his nephew, Lee Nicely, of Washington township (Defiance County). After the funeral the latter thought of the money bank in the wooden leg, and concluded it would be wise to examine it and see if there was some money in it. Accordingly assistance was secured and the body was exhumed and examined, and sure enough in the cash receptacle of the wooden leg $40.00 was found. The money was properly cared for and the body returned to the tomb.
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