Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-28
cREMATED.
The le Moyne Furnace Again
Brought Into Use.
lncineration of the Body Of Or. Louis
fhrhart, ofAlIegheny City, at Wash
ington, Pa, Yesterday
Afternoon.
lIST0FFeRMER CREMATI0NS,


undertaken, visited this place, and made
arrangements with Messrs Harding and
LeMoyne for the cremation Of the body of
DR.. L. Ehrhart, who died in Allegheny
City, on the oath instant. The Doctor
came to this county shortly after the fail.
ure of the revolution of '4S in Germany,
and opened an Office for the practice Of
medicine in Allegheny City sometime in
the wiRter of 1s49, He gained large rep
utation as physician, and no man stood
higher for personal integrity, purity OF
character and philanthropic principles
than DR.. Ehrhart. He was in his 18th year
when he died. Before DR.. LeMoyne put
the
Cremation Theories Into Practice
in this country Dr. Ehrhart believed in and
srgued in favor Of that system OF disposing
of the dead bodies OF human beings. He
afterwards became an enthusiastic advocate
of tie practice and as a consistent man,
maintained that a physician should put
into practice that which he recommended
TO be for the public good. To show his sim
cerity in the matter, he some time ago en-
tered into an agreement with his wife in
which it was stipulated that whoever died
first the surviving partner should person.
ally see that the remains Of the deceased
husband or wife should be
Burned I'm DIR. lie Moyne's Furnace.
The contract was further fortified
by clause in DR.. Ehrhart's VIII, and it is
understood that his widow has indicated
her desire TO have her body treated in
similar manner when she dies.
In accordance with the arrangements
made with Mr.. Devore, the fires in the Gre
matory were lighted last evening, and this
morning at IL o'clock the body arrived
from Pittsburgh by rail and was at once
taken TO the building and placed in the
furnace after undergoing the necessary
preparations. By . o'clock the process was
pronounced complete, it having occupied
few minutes over two hours.
After the body had been removed 10 the
crematory and before il was placed in the
furnace, Mr.. Blank
Delivered the Following Grafton:
'In accordance with the wishes of the
deceased we have brought his earthly re-
mains here to reduce them back TO Mother
Nature. His frail body, through the puri-
fying flames, will be reduced to ashes and
returned TO the elements OF nature. The
man of science has shown, through his
last will, that he is above prejudice, and
closes his career by doing what he consid-
cred best for common humanity. In life
(. giving health to the suffering and in death
giving an example OF the most rational
way and best method for his fellowmen to
return to nature what he has received from
her, the human frame. Friends before me
have declaimed with eloquent words the
noble qualities Of the deceased. His MEM
ory win live in the hearts OF thousands
to whom he was help and consola-
ton at the bedside, and among his large
circle of friends and acquaintances, love
and respect. In his own family he has
erected the most beautiful and lasting
monument-love and respect. The last
farewell to the brave, good and noble man,
peace to his ashes"
This is theffteenth incineration at this
place.
being as follows:
Baron DePalm, Of New York, December
Mrs Benz. Pittman, OF Cincinnati, Feb
ruary 18th, 1873.
Or. Fancis J. LeMoyne, Washington, oc-
tober 18th, 1879.
Charles McCreery, New York, December
Miss Dollie D. Hartman, Pittsburgh,
February eth, 1880.
Dr. oamuel mann, new iofh, MhCu '1H'
1880.
Charles G. Poetz, eNw York, May 18th,
1880.
Mrs. L. B. NJ. Noyes, Warren, Pa, No
vember 25th, 1880.
James Hamilton, Greensboro, Pa, jan
uary 18th, 1881.
D7. Conrad Homburg, Indianapolis, Ind,
February 10th, 1881.
Arthur Strabos New York, March 9th,
1881.
31st, 1881.
Miss Frank NJ. d. Kendall Madison
Ind, May 23d, 1881.
Mrs. Henry Hatterman, New York, June
oath. 1881.
D- L. Ehrhart. Allegheny City, Noyem-
ber 9th 1857 8