Vila Wolf's Dyslexic Folklorist Ranting

From the Museum of Appalachia: “She went out West, but her coffin stayed in Tennessee.”

In the spring of 1986, Museum founder, John Rice Irwin, was rummaging through an old barn on Bull Run Creek in Union County, Tennessee with the barn’s owner, Bruce Wallace. It was in the loft of that barn that John Rice came across a coffin—half covered with hay and fodder. He asked Bruce why he owned such a peculiar item—knowing that there would likely be an interesting story behind it. Bruce smiled, and recounted the following story of how the coffin and its intended recipient were forever separated:

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