Husband kept wife's body, visited it in cave

[L Roebuck]

Husband kept wife's body, visited it in cave (WORLDWIDE CAVING NEWS)http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3107

By Leslie Byrne | Messenger-Inquirer

With the Oct. 26, 1905, death of Abijah Humphress, who lived west of Columbia, in Adair County, comes the strange story of his life for the past 10 years. Ten years ago his wife died, and a few days after the funeral, he went to the graveyard, exhumed the body and carried it to a cave on his farm. Then he began to visit the cavern two and three times a day, and finally as he grew older he cut the trips down to one visit a day, remaining sometimes for hours beside the body. After the death of the husband, there was discussion of burying the couple, but it has been decided to let them remain undisturbed.

Source & Details: www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/9052570.htm

[Azurerana]

www.umsl.edu/~joellaws/ozark_caving/mss/tomsawye.htm

This is a really gruesome true cave story. Parts of it are actually in Tom Sawyer and Clemens' autobiography.

My dad's favorite poem:
When I die, don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol.
With rum at my head and rum at my feet
I know d*mn well my bones will keep.

I have no idea who wrote that ditty. My dad didn't follow his own advice, however.
Because of his lifelong fondness for poet Robert W. Service's immortal gold rush poem about Sam McGee, my dad was cremated.

Jo