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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Mrs. Emma Markley, Philadelphia's heaviest woman and Dime Museum fat champion, died Wednesday and was buried Sept. 6. Her 700-pound coffin drew crowds, needed police for viewing, and required special transport through a window.
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Burial of the Champion Fat Woman of Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 6.—Mrs. Emma Markley, the heaviest woman in Philadelphia, and the woman who last winter took the prize as the champion fat woman at the Dime Museum, was buried this morning. She died on Wednesday. As the undertaker who was given charge of her remains had not, or could not obtain, a large enough ice-box to contain the remains, the body was laid out on the floor and quantities of ice were kept piled around it until this morning, when she was put in the coffin. From early this morning until nearly 10 o'clock steady stream of people from all parts of the city passed through the room in which the coffin lay, and so great was the crowd that a squad of policemen had to be sent to keep the people in line. As the undertaker had no hearse that would carry the coffin—which measured forty-five inches in width and four feet in depth, and with the body inclosed, weighed close to 700 pounds—an undertaker's wagon was used instead. It took ten men to carry the coffin out, and as the door was too narrow to allow the passage of the coffin it was lifted out through the window by six policemen.
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Philadelphia, Pa.
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Sept. 6
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mrs. emma markley died on wednesday; body weighed close to 700 pounds with coffin; buried this morning.
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Mrs. Emma Markley, the heaviest woman in Philadelphia and champion fat woman at the Dime Museum last winter, was buried this morning after dying on Wednesday. The body was laid out on the floor with ice piled around it due to no large enough ice-box. A steady stream of people viewed the coffin until 10 o'clock, requiring policemen to manage the crowd. The coffin measured forty-five inches in width and four feet in depth; no hearse could carry it, so an undertaker's wagon was used. Ten men carried the coffin out, lifted through the window by six policemen as the door was too narrow.