Lady In Red (1835-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial Without more information, we all will be left in the dark. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). DNA preserved in her hair showed she was female. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. The Lady in Red's grave in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Apartment. Trending. Romania: Castles, Ruins, and Medieval Villages, Iceland in Summer: Journey Through a Fabled Land, Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: Mokele-Mbembe, Accidental Discoveries: A Celebration of Historical Mistakes, Antiques and Their Afterlives: Stories from the Collection of Ryan and Regina Cohn, Monster of the Month w/ Colin Dickey: Satanists, Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tale Writing With Anca Szilgyi, Gourds Gone Wild: Growing and Crafting Gourds With Gourdlandia, Playing Ancient Games: History & Mythology With John Bucher, Secrets of Tarot Reading: History & Practice With T. Susan Chang, Why 18th-Century Scots Performed Mock Human Sacrifices Over Cake. The memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Some plantation homes have been restored and are open for tours, others are currently being lived in, and others lie abandoned and being reclaimed by nature. Family members linked to this person will appear here. "Something has been pulling me to her," Hammett said. The date of death on her tombstone is the date of her being unearthed on Egypt Plantation. One of the states most baffling mysteries involves the Lady in Red, whose perfectly preserved corpse was found decades ago on a Mississippi plantation. "She has no one to speak for her. Since then, she said there has been a renewed interest in the Lady in Red. The following account of the amazing preservation of the body is from the (Jackson, MS) Clarion-Ledger, 29 August 1969: "The method of preservation used for the Lady In Red was common prior to the Civil War, when custom-made caskets, shaped to the body, were ordered as one would order a dress. The casket was more than 140 years old and there was no headstone. She has no one to speak for her. The mysterious lady in red found on Egypt Plantation in Mississippi may just remain an unsolved mystery. They discovered the coffin when a workmans backhoe hit something hard underneath the soil. The casket was most likely a Fisk Iron Casket which was first patented in 1848. Her granddaughter, Cam Bonelli of Glencoe, Minnesota, has been digging for clues about the unknown Victorian woman. based on information from your browser. (3,072 2,304 pixels, file size: 2.68 MB, MIME type: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/93178668@N00/139412970, https://www.flickr.com/people/93178668@N00, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliemaynor/139412970/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Lady_in_Red_(Odd_Fellows_Cemetery,_Lexington,_Mississippi).jpg&oldid=622189854, Odd Fellows Cemetery (Lexington, Mississippi), Images from Wikipedia Summer of Monuments uploaded after the deadline, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2commons, Flash did not fire, auto mode, red-eye reduction mode. The young Jane Doe was named The Lady In Red due to her red brocade dress. You may request to transfer up to 250,000 memorials managed by Find a Grave. Access the list by submitting your email below: Home UNSOLVED: Lady In Red Coffin is a Mississippi Mystery. Persons viewing the woman, who has been described as in her twenties or thirties, dressed in red velvet, with long brown hair, estimate she has been dead at least 75 years.. Try again. Mississippi's Blue Front Cafe: 72 years of blues and still going strong, "I remember when they found her and people were talking about it," said Chris Hammett of Lexington. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE.
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