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A Local Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingtipsREADING, Pennsylvania - A leather-skinned mummified man - a longtime curiosity lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania and known only as"Stoneman Willie", got two things Saturday he went without for 128 years - a burial and his real name.
A group of funeral home employees and well-wishers, said in unison,"Rest in peace, James," as they unveiled his tombstone, with his real name in small letters below large type reading,"Stoneman Willie."Murphy was of Irish descent, an alcoholic, and was in Reading at a firefighters' convention when he died in the local jailhouse of kidney failure on Nov. 19, 1895, said Kyle Blankenbiller, the director of the Theo C. Auman Inc.
Because Murphy gave a fake name when arrested, local officials were unable to locate relatives, said local historian George Meiser.
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