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Title	Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Alternative Title	Sheets, Martin
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	Ronald Mullen's transcribed account about a man who requested a phone be put in his mausoleum. The man wanted the phone in case he came back to life and needed to call someone to come get him.
Informant	Mullen, Ronald
Collector	Mullen, Ronald
Date of Original	1969-01-08
Contextual Information	Martin Sheets was an eccentric man from Terre Haute, Indiana. He died in 1910 and was laid to rest in a mausoleum in Highland Lawn Cemetery. Ref. Motif-Index. S123 "Burial alive"; E600 "Reincarnation"
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Terre Haute -- 1969
Subject	Telephones Tombs & sepulchral monuments Fear Buried Alive Reincarnation Highland Lawn Cemetery
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-04-05
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-Martin Sheets, Phone in Mausoleum005

Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum

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