A Fisk iron coffin containing the body of a woman, named Sophia Catherine Nance, with a glass oval revealing her face. The woman died on January 1853 aged 28, and the coffin was found lying underneath the floorboards of Washington Street United Methodist Church in South Carolina [901×800]
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Any better photos of the mummy?
In the winter time when the ground is too frozen, they used to stuff caskets under the church until the ground thawed
Is that just mold/growth over the face or is there some kind of shroud situation here?
Not sure what I think… remains to be seen
They could have at least covered her over. I mean, Jesus Hillary Rodham Christ, it’s like we’ve got a Catherine of Valois situation, here. She was obviously disinterred when they dug the foundations for the new church. They asked for someone to move her grave and when no one did… they just left her as a fun little curiosity for people to poke at.
This church once gave this woman a Christian burial. Their descendants can’t even be arsed to dig a few feet deeper and scoop a little soil over her remains.
I don’t know why it was under the floorboard of a church. I really think that it deserves a proper burial.
Oh wow, TIL. This is great shit pal, I love these weird death fad relics.
I don’t want my body to be preserved with some kind of horrifying rictus.
Let me be dirt and trees and worms
Why an iron coffin?
Someone once cared immensely for her or she came from wealth only to be forgotten over time.
[More info on the type of coffin: Fisk metallic burial case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_metallic_burial_case)