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Title	Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Alternative Title	Sheets, Martin
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	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 drink while waiting for his ride. This account also states that telephone operators were afraid to take the switchboard to which the phone was connected.
Informant	Anonymous
Collector	Baldwin, Charles
Date of Original	1971-07-11
Contextual Information	The informant was a 76 year-old male. His name was withheld. 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 -- 1971
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 Mausoleum011

Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum

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