EMMA ABBOTT'S BODY CREMATED.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 103, 2 May 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

EMMA ABBOTT'S BODY CREMATED.

The remains of the famous opera singer, Emma Abbott, were cremated at Pittsburg, on February 18, in accordance with the terms of her will. The three executors accompanied the body to Pjttsburg. The cremation took place in fte Samson Crematory. The arrangements had all been carefully made, and when the train arrived Mr. Samdon himself met it and conveyed the remains to hio prematory, situated in the basement of his undertaking establishment. Mr Samson's son, who is a partner in the business, did not even know whose corpse it was. The body was lifted from the casket and ulaced upon an iron litter. The body still wore the same dress as it appeared in wheu go many friends viewed it is Chicago on the day of the funeral, and the wilted flowers still rested upon the body. The features of the dead body were still as natural as they were the day she died. In accordance with the request of the will, the electrical test was applied to the body, and it was then gently rolled into the furnace. Only the executors and Mr. Samson and his son stood before the glass door of the furnace, and saw the flesh and bones of the sweet singer turn to ashes. In |;wfl hours the work was done. The ashes, fiPflugh to fill a halfgallon cup, were tenderly gathered and placed in a a silver urn, which was sealed and handed over to the executors, Houghton and Dunning. The paramount proviso of the singer's will has been carried out, an 4 a ,^uih that she had many times expressed ' to bey intimate friends has been gratified.