![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t see the delivered product, so I’ll focus this review on Simply Elegant Flowers. ![]() She was very pleased to receive them, and the photo shows beautiful, cheery sunflowers. He’d died in 1981 in a motorcycle accident at the age of 28, leaving her with three young children.Ĭhoking up with tears, Freedman said: “The whole thing is sad.These flowers were a birthday gift for a high school friend who’s not doing well physically (we’re in our mid-70’s), whose favorite color is yellow. She was forced to move her husband from the mausoleum five years ago and into a cemetery. “I know these people better than my I know my own family.”ĭziedzic said the mausoleum was once a “beautiful structure.” She said local residents from Swansea, Rehoboth, Seekonk and Dighton with a bit of wealth chose it as their final resting place.Ī woman, Jane Fredman, who lives nearby was out walking her dog on Tuesday morning when she saw the caskets coming down the steps. “This has been months in the making,” Dziedzic said. The vaults for the caskets were donated by Wilbert Vault Co., with a location in Connecticut. The removal of the bodies, and their internment, will cost Correia roughly $7,500 from his own pocket. “Williams had one daughter, and that’s her,” he said pointing to Ruth’s casket. Chapman purchased a pair of adjoining crypts so the whole family would be together in eternal rest. That same day, his daughter Ruth and her husband Herbert L. She died in 1931, prompting him to purchase two crypts in the then stylish mausoleum. Minnie Williams had been Williams’ first wife. “Oh, Poor Minnie,” Dziedzic said when she saw the layers of silver tape wrapped around one of the caskets being carried from its crypt. They couldn’t believe their luck – all due to a tree being toppled at the Chapman grave in the cemetery, allowing extra space for burials. Together, they were able to find burial space with the Chapman side of Williams’ family at North Cemetery in Cranston to re-intern all five family members rescued from the mausoleum. “I like to research genealogy and cemeteries in particular,” Dziedzic said. The two met at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast a decade ago, where Dziedzic wrote the script for the 1892 true Borden murder mystery and Correia played first the deceased Andrew Borden laying under a bloody sheet on the front room sofa, and then the undertaker Winward. With the help of historian Shelley Dziedzic - the woman who first brought to life the murders of Fall River’s infamous Borden couple in an annual dramatization at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum - Correia pieced together a history of the Williams’ family. “I couldn’t bear the thought that the founder of my funeral home … was rotting away inside this abomination of desolation,” Correia said. “It’s not safe.”īoth the city and state, so far, have not stepped forward to do much more than erect fencing, now broken, around the building. The building on Tuesday was filled with water and “loaded with asbestos and mold,” Correia said, as workers in Hazmat suits carried out another body. After their deaths and with no money for perpetual care, it fell to ruin, leaving more than 500 bodies stuck inside as the leaking, decaying structure literally falls with time. ![]() The private mausoleum opened in 1898 and was run by two sisters. After finding some yellowed files, he learned that its founder and family had been laid to rest at Oakland Mausoleum, also known as Roger Williams Mausoleum. Funeral Home in East Providence, Rhode Island. It was two years ago when Correia, now 30, purchased the J.H. “I’m just so glad to have them out of there,” Correia said. The five bodies taken from their crypts in the infamous and decaying Oakland Mausoleum on Tuesday were part rescue mission and part moral obligation for Somerset native and funeral director Andrew Correia. One had even been duct taped across the bottom after it gave way from rot when workers removed it from the mausoleum. The other four caskets removed from their crypts, all belonging to Williams’ family members, were in various stages of decay. – When the casket containing the mortal remains of James Haviland Williams was carried gently down the crumbling stone staircase, the plastic sheeting it had been covered in to keep its occupant secure, flapped in the morning breeze. ![]()
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