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Title	Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Alternative Title	Sheets, Martin
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	Mary Anne Pierce's transcribed interview of Marsee A. Cox's account of Martin Sheets' phone in the mausoleum. Cox said that Sheets was an eccentric who wanted a phone in his mausoleum. According to Cox, the phone was removed after too many people complained about the telephone poles near other graves. Cox also stated that Martin Sheets didn't like people to park in front of his house and would damage cars if they were parked there.
Informant	Cox, Marsee A.
Collector	Pierce, Mary Anne
Date of Original	1970-05-04
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 -- 1970
Subject	Telephones Tombs & sepulchral monuments Fear Buried Alive Reincarnation Highland Lawn Cemetery
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-04-07
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 Mausoleum008

Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum

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