A black text copy of the November 30, 1948 Glenn Echo. There is one article about the PTA, a newly established organization at the time, and its initial meeting (pg. 1), two articles about etiquette (2, 6), and eight articles about sports...
Bill Ringo's transcribed interview of Mrs. Chasteen's account of Martin Sheets and the phone in his mausoleum. According to Mrs. Chasteen, Martin Sheets wanted a phone in the mausoleum should he get a chance at a second life. Sheets didn't want to...
Bill Ringo's transcribed interview of William Ridge's account of Martin Sheets' request to have a phone and whiskey put inside his mausoleum with him after death. William Ridge said that Martin Sheets believed that some people were chosen for a...
Black and white copy of a photograph of the Glenn High School office staff including student assistants (standing), the school secretary (seated left), the principal (seated center), and the school treasurer (seated right). Student assistants,...
Black and white photograph from the Glenn High School yearbook of Principal Jack Williams in his office with three other men. Trustee Ed Haggerman is on the far left followed by Principal Jack Williams and two unknown men.
Black and white reproduction of a drawing diagramming a manual telephone system. The diagram was drawn By Hila Champer Campbell who operated the manual board for ten years, from 1920-1930, before the switchboard went automatic.
Bob Milliron's transcribed interview of Vickie Gilbert's account of the telephone in the mausoleum. Vickie Gilbert said that a man from West Terre Haute, Indiana believed that someday he would come back to life and wanted a phone in his mausoleum...
Carolyn Sutliff's transcribed interview of Myrtle Sanders about Martin Sheets. Myrtle Sanders states that there is a pipe sticking out of a grave in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana. She said there was a man who was afraid of being...
Charles Baldwin's transcribed interview of an anonymous 76 year-old male. This account states that Sheets wanted to be buried with a phone and a bottle of whiskey. The phone was to call in case he woke up, and the whiskey was so he could have a...
Cheryl Stryker's transcribed interview of Helen Dubbs' account of the phone in Martin Sheets' mausoleum. Martin Sheets had a telephone installed in his mausoleum because he was afraid he would be buried alive, and when he woke up no one would come...
