Rating
Title	Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum
Alternative Title	Sheets, Martin
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	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 get him unless he called. Helen Dubbs stated that she worked at the telephone office and that the girls who worked the switch boards didn't like to work the board with Martin Sheets' mausoleum number on it. They were afraid that it would light up someday.
Informant	Dubbs, Helen
Collector	Stryker, Cheryl
Date of Original	1969-07-28
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	2011-04-07
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 Mausoleum006

Martin Sheets, phone in mausoleum

Description