OLD FARMER'S PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 25

OLD FARMER'S PLAN

RUNS HIS OWN FUNERAL

Wade Millman, farmef 88, who says his fun in life has 'been ','inakin£ money," recently announced ho would conduct his funeral services on a Sunday afternoon at the Canaan rural church near Danville, Indiana, says the "Chicago Tribune;"

"I'll preach, the sermon myself;" he said, "but it won't b : e &■ sermon, apd I won't preach... Em just gojng; ; .ta, f tok, and I will have tjiingsto say thai n^ay teach you something."

•'■'Millman's casket) built from an-oak tree on his farm, is ready. Charles Monnett, woodworker at Coatesville, put the finishing touches to it recently. The boards are one arid ,three-fpu^tl'\s| inches in thickness.' . .

"I don't "want any preacher or singing at my funeral.^vithe' ol<3; ; ' farmer explained, "so I 'decided I jwpjild/'tajcj!' care of the thing iri^&ell ana> getj 'it over with. , ' '■ '■■"•.'.'■'■i :•'"'.*:;' .'■.' '■'■'

- "I haye selected six pallbearers and paid each, one of them five dollars., I want them toput me in this coffin, and" I don't want an undertaker. Then I want- them .to place me in a farm wagon and haul me down there where I have a .stone erected at my grave. I imported that'stone "-from--Switzer-land., and'it's a dandy."

Jus X.before he- posed for : ay.picture at his tomb'st'onel he.JientCa,neighbour £300 on a mortgage. • ' '<

. Mrs. .Millman.iwho is 78, has refused to let her husband keep the casket in their farm home. So it. is being stored jn Mbnnett's shop. They were married eleven years ago.

"I couldn't cookj' and I 'couldn't make.the beds," vyas.the way Millman. up to that time a bachelor, explained it. "Mrs. Ida .Leathers owed ;me £120 and every.one, s.aid she was a fine woman and a.^Ood cook. I talked it oypr with h'cr'^andi.we were niarfjiriedjl'?" ';' '■ . ' ■ \