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Word: wackenmuth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Marshall W. Hoyt of Natick, Mass., died, a person who said she was Mrs. Grace T. Hoyt gave the body a regulation burial and went home to wait for her slice of Hoyt's $20,000 estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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