ONE LEG IN GRAVE
AMPUTATED LIMB IS INTERRED IN PLOT. savannah, Monday. "Permission is herewith granted to W. T. Smith to inter one leg in Laurel Grove Cemetery." This unusual authority has just beefi granted by the health department of the ciffy of Savannah, ai^d through the autnority thus given Mr. gmith has had his lower right limb givhn suitable interment in the family burying lot in one of tjie I 'puBlic cemeteries of Savannah. Mr. Sniith suffered the amputation of his leg because o'f "disease, and he was 'firm iii his resolution that it should be given suitable interment. At Laurel Grove Cemetery gravediggers dug a trench but representatives qf the ,^mith. family said it ^Quid;|[ot dq a| blf. • They- cp|tqn4qd thatl'unless the limb was' burie4 upright, just as the owner would use it in lyqlking, Mr. Smith would be : most unconifortable in the region of where his leg had been.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 15 September 1931, Page 5
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