Lorenzo Dow McKinney

Article taken from The Delphos Daily Herald, June 25, 1900

Pulled a Horse's tail

Lorenzo Dow McKinney, aged, 80, celebrated the fifth anniversary of his funeral, at Portsmouth. In 1895 fully 5,000 people assembled in a grove and McKinney's funeral was conducted in the regulation manner, while the "corpse" sat on the platform. His idea was that "it was useless for a man to postpone his funeral services until after he was dead, thus missing all the fun and the good things his neighbors say about him." When he dies there will be no services. His remains will be cremated and will be placed in an urn prepared ten years ago in the cemetery at Scioto,O