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Title	Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Alternative Title	Sheets, Martin
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	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 spend more time in a cemetery that was necessary.
Informant	Chasteen, Mrs.
Collector	Ringo, Bill
Date of Original	1970-05-09
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 Mausoleum009

Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum

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