The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-02-17
A womAN's STRANGE WILL
Her Body Was Watched for F,f.,
Days After Death. -----. - %

Days After Death -'-on
There Is an attendant at the Odd n,
lows cemetery whose duty it is 70 a,, ~
vault there at brief intervals and tsNr
into the face Of the dead He bas b non
doing this for several days and n,,h.a
and his vigil will continue till ar
DAYS have come and gone. He il ~
forming the work in obedience In . ~.
expressed in the will of the la,e NJ
Augustine Perichon. Freuchvo,,-
who died in this city Recently NJ
FenSion entertained fear tb., :.
wCu.d be her lot to he buried al,ra
How she came 10 dread this is fold ~
the story Of her life.
She was born in Orleans. France 1,
1926 In lS4S. when she WAS bnt t,,.."
ty-two years of age. she came m ia.
country and soon thereafter WIS ,a-
ried mi New York city From a.rl,.
childhood she loved To read tales ~ -,
nance and fiction. but nothing had :.
greater fascination for her than a s,,,r,,
of some poor unfortunate whose f,,,. !,
was to be buried while in franco I,
is said that she accumulated the nrintsd
announcements of all the most ho,,5lla
incidents of this kind that have bpen go
corded during the last half centurv In
1854 she crossed the continent to San
Francisco.
Two years after her arrival here che
obtained divorce from her husband
but soon married again Her second
husband died in 1858 Besides few
personal effects. she has left money and
iewelry to the value of nearly $6 o0o
but she has no relative eithern Amer,,.a
or France to inherit from her. althonyh
during the last few years of her life She
spent much time and money in trying
to trace some one descended from eith,r
her father Or her mothers line
She directed in her will thai after the
doctors pronounced her dead her BODY
should be placed IN coffin and Their in
the vault of the odd Fellows cemetery
The lid of the coffin shonld be so ar
ranged that her face could he seen. and
some one should he paid literally to
visit the vault and look upon It at brief
intervals This was to be kept M for
fifteen days during which time prppar;,-
tons were to he made To place the bodv
in its last resting place IN the same Gene
terry
Some years ago Mrs Perchon pur-
chased a plot in that cemetery and her
will directs that vault he built In il
suitable for the reception of three bod
ies-her own and those of two friends
The exact dimensions of this grave are
given. and an iron framework is to he
placed ut the bottom. upon which. side
by side. the three collins are To rest Be-
sides this. directions are gwen in regard
to the headstones and the epiiaphs they
shall bear. as well ~ minnie details of
matters of less Importance
OF the two friends who are to share
the grave with the remains of Mrs. Peri
chon one Is still living Noone seems to
know why these two of the many who
formed the circle of friends of the de
ceased should ht singled out. and II Mrs
Perichon were living her friends say
she would declare Il to be np ones husi-
ness hut her own The twuare j Bnnde
Frenchman. who died abont five years
ago. and whose body now lies IN the odd
Fellows cemetery. and William Weiss
mann. German The latter Is seventy
years of age and Is an inmate of the Sol
diers home at Santa Monica He has
been notified Of the provisions VI the
will of his old friend San Francisco
Examiner