The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-17
CREMATION DEFERRED.
The strange Request Of DR.. WfnsioW
Denied BY His Children - HIS
Heart to His Mother. His Body TO
HIS Wife.

The Strange Request Of DR.. Wfnsiow
Denied BY His Children - HIS
Heart TO His Mother, His Body "a
HIS Wife.
By Telegraph TO the Herald.
SALT LAKE CITY, July l8, 1877.
DR.. E. F. Winslow, 8 respected citl'
zen of Salt Lake City, whose children re-
side in Missouri and New York, died re
Gently, and desired by the terms OF his
will that his remains should be cremated
The request was about to be carried into
effect here yesterday by his executor, IN.
der the direction of his trusted profess
sional friend, Dr.. j. +. Hamilton, who
in the brief time allowed had promoted
the construction OF cremstory fully
adapted to the purpose designed by DR..
Winslow. The wishes Of Or. Winslow's
children, telegrsphed from the East, pre-
vented the contamination of the project,
aud relieved DIR. Hamilton and
the executors from painful
and difficult task, which they
undertook at his dying command.
The following are the terms of DR.. WINS
lows will which is ceuntermanded by
the wishes OF his children, they under
taking all mo- tai ard legal responsibility
in the matter
A STRANGE REQUEST.
81 request, order and command that If
in the course of eight and forty hours it
be known positively and clearly proven
that am dead, my heart may be re-
moved from my body by some comps-
tent snatomist and placed Immediately IN
8 strong glass vessel having a ground
glass stopper sccurstely fitted to the
same, and that this vessel be immediate
ly filled for the purpose of embalmlng
my heart with saturated solution, in
hot water, of muriste OF ammonia, sal
ammonia and the corrosive sublimate OF
mercury and with the highest proof ALEC.
hol. This mixture to consist OF equal
parts of alcohol and the saturated solu-
ton Of sal smmonIac and the corrosive
sublimste, each OF these salts being added
to the boiling water until it will dissolve
no more. The alcohol may be added TO
the solution while it is yet hot and the
vessel filed Herewith. The vessel must
be stopped and sealed and the stopper Sc
curely covered with wet parchment and
tied. | order this vessel, with its con-
tents thus prepared and when cold, to be
put into thick oak plank box, made of
the size just to receive it, and this box
order to be saturated with coal tar; this
wish enclosed in plain pine case and
buried in the grave and over the remains
OF my dear and venerated mother, IN the
South of Newtown' burying ground, in
the island OF Nantucket, where l WAS
born. My dear and excellent father, to
whom am indebted for my enlarged
views OF nature, lies by her side, and the
same mound marks the resting place OF
both, and a single stone records the birth
and death of each. Thus may this sacred
spot be known where | wish my heart
TO rest forever after my heart has been
removed and embslmed as above direct
ed.
DIRECTING THAT HIS BODY BE BURNED.
81 order that my body be burned In
the most convenient manner that my
executors or the friends or persons with
whom may dwell at the time of my
death may be able to adopt. | should be
satisfied il the method of cremation rs
practised by the ancient Romans was
adopted, but if this be not convenient or
practicable my body may be burned IN a
retort, rs is now practlsed in such Cases
in Germany. After this process is m
pleted desire and order that all that
may remain Of my bones and ashes may
be gathered up, placed in streng glass
vessel similar to the one before described
and that this be treated in the same
manner as that which shall contain my
heart. 1t is my desire and command
that this be taken TO the cemetery OF
Mount Auburn, near Cambridge Mass,
and placed in the sane grave and upon
the coffin which contains the precious re-
mains of my great, dear and venersted
wife. In regard to the above requests
and commands | here further more ex-
press the desire and request that
no mo re public expense or ceremony be
permitted in the execution thereof than
may be absolutely necessary to carry out
my wishes, and | particularly request
that no religious ceremonies, so called,
by any priest, minister or lsyman OF
any creed,or sectarlan denomination be
allowed or performed in connection with
my death or the disposition OF my re-
mains. Then shall the dust return to
the earth as it WAS, and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it. No mans
lntercessions toward Deity can medify
these DEGREES; they are therefore useless
aud shsms,"
The cremation is still possible