The accidentally mummified corpse of a thief who died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail in 1895 will be laid to rest later this week after more than a century on display.
The burial, planned for Saturday, coincides with Reading’s 275th anniversary. The mummy, known to locals as Stoneman Willie, had been displayed at the Theo C. Auman Funeral Home and Crematory ever since the eponymous Auman accidentally mummified him while experimenting with the then-new art of embalming.
In that time, Stoneman Willie became a local icon and a part of the lives of multiple generations of Reading residents. Local historian Charles Adams III will be providing the eulogy, having first seen the mummy on display as a child.
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