we found and dug up a castiron casket in l965 near Oswego, Kansas. If someone wants details about this contact my wife at the e mail address given. The casket is in a museum now.

This person claims to have seen one.

http://lists.gardencity.net/pipermail/acra-l/2000-August/007373.html

There is a cast iron casket that is visible looking through the door of the crypt of Dr. J.M. Haden, located in Galveston,Texas. The cemetary is the "Old City Cemetary." It even has a glass viewing plate over the face of the deceased.

multidicipline forensic team recovered and studied occupants of three cast iron coffins from Thibodaux Louisiana cemetery by the requests of the family legal title holder.

All burial remains and cast iron coffin occupants have been reburied with a burial ceremony by catholic priests and family present.

historical research ongoing, DNA completed.
Some forensic studies on-going.

March 11 2005 while moving a historic cem we found a cast iron casket with face plate intact
this casket was in every way designed to look like an egyptian mummie it still contains red blue white paint has a casting mark a.k. fisk paten no # the grave ledger is dated 1852 the condition of the casket is par-excellent it was buried in a brick lined tomb that had never been damaged in any way

Cast iron casket with face plate intact was found in NW DC Friday 4/1/05 and was removed from the ground Monday 4/4/05. No further report other than found next to a church buried beneath the concrete and around gas/water pipes. Wonder why it was never found when laying the pipes?

It was probably found, but since removals are, let's say "interesting" they probably just decided to leave it where they found it. I am a ex sexton of a large cemetery in the Midwest....

we have a baby's cast iron coffin in our shop in tennessee. the face plate is missing but there once was one there. anyone wishing to contact us about this should email.

A metallic coffin with no seams, a round glass face plate, and a metal plate covering the glass, which could pivit around exposing the glass and thus revealing the person's face whom was contained it it was found in northeast Louisiana near where I grew up @ 1949. It was wide at the shoulders and tapered down to the feet like it was molded to fit the person contained in it. What time period are you thinking these coffins were used? Story has it that he had a military type of uniform on and wore a masonic emblem. They were ordered to re-bury it. I understand that LSU had taken some of the bone for research. I always wanted to know more about it. I sure would like to hear from you and your ideas on this matter.
Sandy

I'm aware of the coffin found in Northeast Louisiana mentioned by Sandy above. I believe that one was around Lake Providence. The body was that of a man with red hair in a military style uniform and had a diamond Masonic pin on the lapel. The man on whose property it was found was said to be charging $.25 to see him. When I was a kid living in Monroe, Louisiana an iron coffin was found in a brick crypt on the edges of Lake Desird. It contained the body of a woman latter determined to be Ms. St. Clara Wade. The body was taken to Mulhearn Funeral Home in Monroe and put on display. TV crews from KNOE Ch.8 and many people including myself came to see her. She was reburied in a cemetery on Hwy 80 East of Monroe near the Dept. of Hwy's.

Accorcing to Mississippi Monroe County Sheriff Andy Hood, Thursday (10/2/08) at 3 p.m., the Monroe County Sheriff's Department received a call that a body had been dug up at an active work area in the south part of the county.

When deputies arrived, they found a body that had been exhumed by an excavator at a local dirt pit. The area was recently a corn field and had been for years.

The body was found by workers in the area and seemed to be well dressed and well preserved. The body was turned over to Coroner Alan Gurley.

At the site, small pieces of what appeared to be a type of casket or container were also found. The pieces were cast iron and appeared to have a glass port hole in it.

An investigator for the Sheriff's Department found a similar casket/coffin on the Internet that matched what we found.

The coffin looks to be a Fisk Cast Iron Coffin that may have been made as early as 1850 to 1870.

According to Cronaca.com, the coffin would have cost between $50 and $100 in the 19th century at a time when the average person's coffin was $2 to $3. Hood said although an expert would have to verify exactly what they found, they feel confident that it is a very old grave that could be from the Civil War Era.

WWW.tennessee-scv.org/Camp854/shy2.html states that the cast iron coffins were very expensive and only people of some prominence could afford them. Most people in 1860's were buried in pine boxes. The cast iron coffin would weigh almost 300 pounds and had a glass plate over the face area. It had a oval plate that fits over the glass just before burial. The coffin was sealed and bolted with steel screws and has four handles on each side, a similar description to what was found.

Hood said the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University have been contacted to look at the site. The Historical Society has been contacted as well.

Hood said the department will have more details later and will open the site to the press after an expert looks at the site and remains.

Hood said the Mississippi Highway Patrol Criminal Investigators Crime Scene Unit was called in and assisted with the initial investigation.

When the cemetery from Cottonport, AL was moved in 1968 (as I65 was built) an iron casket was discovered with a man wearing a diamond tie pin. It seems his whereabouts are not known now, but the other bodies were moved to Hayden Cemetery in New Hope,AL. Cottonport, AL is a "lost" town that was near Mooresville, AL from 1818-1850ish.