Lafayette's Ashes Buried With Dog

1911

ASHES BURIED WITH DOG

Lafayette's Funeral at Edinburgh Witnessed by Tremendous Crowd

Edinburgh, May 15.—Lafayette's unurned ashes were buried between the paws of the embalmed body of Beauty his favorite dog, in the Edinburgh cemetery. A royal funeral could not have been larger.

The chief mourner was Lafayette's second favorite dog, which rode alone in a curtained auto.



Farmer's Fatal Over-Exertion

Akron, O., May 15.—While plowing on his farm Newman Adair, a prominent farmer of Summit county, was overcome by the heat and expired within a few hours.

—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1911, page 2.