Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-11
A COPY Of THE
W|ASL0W WILL.
Granddaughter Doctor Who Was
Cremated ia Salt Lake,
Makes Request.
WANTS TO READ ITS TERMS.
Letter Brings to Mind a Strange and
Eyeniful Career Wording of the
Last viii and Testament

County Clerk James han received a
letter from Mrs Bertha Shipper IT.
wing Of New York requesting a copy
OF the viii OF her grandfather, Or.
Charles Frederick Winslow, who died
in this city In 1871 The letter and
the viii will probably bring to mind
to the older residents Of this city the
first cremation in the city, Dr. Win
slow, In his viii, requested that his
heart be cut out and preserved In a
glass Jar and then buried In the grave
with his mother on the Island Of Nan
tucket. II was requested that his
body be cremated and his ashes en-
closed In a similar Jar and buried in
the grave with his wifcs remains near
Cambridge, Mass
At that early date, 1917, there was
no such thing ny n Crenatory 80 one
had TO be improylsed for the occasion
II consisted OF u fire box with u strong
draft, and was constructed on a va
cant lot Just north Of the Spencer
Clawson warehouse on Broadway. II
Is said that nearly everybody In town
witnessed the cremation OF the body
and there are a number Of people to-
day who remember OF the heart and
ashes Of DR.. Wlnslow being disposed
Of as requested In mis- will.
The letter received by County Clerk
James, which Is responsible for the will
being brought to light again after 80
many years, Is as follows.
so West I2ith Street, New York city,
Jan. 4, 1904 Secretary Of Court, Salt
Lake City, Utah Dear Sir--Will you
be Kind enough to inform me what
method ! VIII have to pursue TO pro.
cure a copy OF my grandfathers
Charles Frederick Winslow) will,
which was probated In Salt Lake City
some time in the year 1877, as he had
resided In that city and died there In
July. 1871?
BY informing me how ! can procure
an official, accurate copy and how TO
send the necessary money for the ex-
pense connected Herewith you will
greatly obllge, most respectfully yours,
BERTHA SHIPPEN IRVING.
MRS, Robert A.
The viii contains % pages OF closely
written matter, The provisions rela-
tive 10 the disposition Of his remains
are as follows:
Il request, order and command that
In the course OF eight and forty hours
after II Is known positively and clearly
proven that l am dead, my heart may
be removed from my body by some
competent anatomist, and placed i'm
mediately In a strong glass vessel hav-
Ing a ground glass stopper accurately
fitted 10 the samei and that this vessel
be immediately filled. for the purpose OF
embalmIng my heart, with saturated
solution In hot water OF murlate OF am
monla (sal ammoniac) and the corro-
sive sublimate OF mercury, and with
the highest proof alcohol, this mixture
10 consist of equal parts OF alcohol and
OF the saturated solution Of sal ammon-
lac and the corrosive sublimate, each OF
these salts being added TO the boiling
water until It will dissolve no more.
/ order this vessel with It's con-
tents TINS prepared and when cold, TO
be put into a thick oak plank box.made
OF the size just TO receive the vessel,
and this box 1 order 10 be saturated
with coal tar This | wish Enclosed IN
a plain pine case and buried In the
grave and over the remains OF my
dear and venerated mother In the
South. or Newton, butying ground In
the Island OF Nantucket, where | was
born.
After my heart has been removed
and embalned a. above directed, or
der that my body be burned in the most
convenient manner, that my executors,
or the friends and persons with whom |
! may dwell at the time Of my death, |
may be able to adopt, ! should be |
satisfied II the method OF cremation |
as praotIsed by the ancient Romans
was adopted, but II this be not conve-
nlent or practicable, my body may be |
burned In rsshouse or similar re- |
tort as Is now practised In such cases |
in Germany,
After this process Is completed, de-
sire and order that all that may re- |
main OF my bones and ashes may be |
gathered up and placed In a strong |
glass vessel similar 10 tho one before |
described, and that this be treated In |
the same manner as that which shall
contain my heart II IL my desire and |
that this be taken 10 the |
cemetery OF Mt, Auburn near cam
bridge, Mass, and placed IN the same |
grave and upon the coffin which con-
tains the precious remains OF my great, |
dear and yenerQtad wife"