The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-10-12
TOGETHER STILL
.~ AND WIFE, THOUGH THE
ARE NJ RUsBAND is DEAD.

che ParIOr Is the M ausoleuA VI
DIR. Marvin.
rbostlv thrilling story comes from
o1-dele that progressive, thriving town
60 obastly and blood-curoling is the
.o-r that many who hear it are not In
"-.d n believe it, while those who do
' rouo IT shukder when they hear it
limited.
,,nr Marvins body is in glass coffin In
y. wife's pallor. Through that coffin
~ can see him just as you used to on
~ streets. He is dressed in that same
t,rItless style, and has on all those bril-
liant diamonds.
when the doctor died Mrs. Marvin
was going to bury him just as he is now;
hu+ some one told her that the grave
,rould be too big a temptation and the
iawelry would be stolen by grave robbers.
Tbon she sent to New Orleans for an I'M
dortaker and had the body thoroughly
ombalmed, placed in a glass coffin and
tits now in her parlor. The New Or
loors undertaken cor tracted blood poison
ord had to have part of his hand ampu-
tated.
The Story from Cordele.
Cordele. Ca, October 1.-Co1dele fur
nisbes an instance of wifely devotion I'M
nrecedented in the history of Geargia
and unsurpassed by the tabled goddess.
This broad assertion, but the story of
Mrs. George W. Marvin, wife of the late
MAYOR of Cordele, will bear me out fully
in making it.
On the 10th of July of this year DR..
Marvin saw the last of this world sur
rounded by his wife and friend who had
attended him through his long illness
and his crushed and heart-broken wife.
Those who witnessed the scene say they
have never seen anything more thrilling
and touching Mrs. Marvin lost COM
plete control of her nerves and raved
furiouslv She refused to be comfOrted
BY her friends, and as she had No belief
in hereafter she could gain no relief
from the grace of Him who giveth all
things and taketh all things away.
She made the startling announcement
then and therel that sh had made a
solemn compact with her husband before
his death, agreeing that they would both
enter into oblivion at as near the same
tire as could be easily arranged by
means of suicide. Those who were with
Mrs. Marvin at the time thought of
course that when the excitement caused
by DR.. Marvins death wore off, she
would forget her threats of self-intiicted
death and take up the weary cares of
life again wi h peac aful resignation.
1t seems now, however, that the as
Sertion that she intended to kill herself
was the announcement of fixed deter
minaton, and she still contemplates tax
ing her own life as soon as she has made
some arrangements for the permanent
interment Of her husbands remains, for
the reader must understand that at this
moment ali that is mortal of DR.. George
W. Marvin occupies a place in the late
reside nee of that gentleman and the pres
ent residence of his widow.
An embalmer from Macon was tele-
graphed fer Immediately upon the
death of DR.. Marvin and bis body was
prepared for burial.
The funeral and procession was nearly
mile long, and all the business houses
in Cordele were closed, showing universal
respect for the man who had added so
much to the city's prosperity.
But the sensational features of the sit
uatiOn were only begun.
For four days the body lay in the
ground and the people were beginning
to forget the excitement attending his
death and burial.
In the darkness of quiet night there
was another funeral procession, but no
carriages followed the hearse and no one
on foot accompanied the dead except
those who helped to dig the earth from
ABOVE the coffin and bear the corpse back
70 The place from which the first process
sion had started.
IN the dead of the night few trusted
friends, whom Mrs. Marvin had request
eu TO act, went to the cemetery and
"iouShU odck the body
Next morning Mr.. w. D. Alverson, a
young embalmer, arrived from New Or
eanS, and at once began the process of
emoalming the body so that it could be
preserved indefinitely. At the same
!! an Italian sculptor, who now resides
III augusta, arrived and began preparing
pans Tor an immense mausoleum to be
erected IN Cordele in memory OF DR..
me me artist submitted plan of mon
o unent which would be a pride to any
O oa and if the original idea had been
VAL. ed out this city would have had the
d ttoe' magnificent tomb in Georgia. The
Uo ooleh was OF monument to consist of
room as base with at each corner a
second set of columns of the tomb and
ttSSpped with shaft, the whole tower in
'ne air sixty-six feet
so - would have cost when completed