Eccentric dirty people, Emison, Indiana
| Description: |
Lola Faris transcribed personal account of Jesse Carol. Carol lived in Emison, Indiana, and was very dirty. No one paid much attention to Jesse, but when he stopped appearing people got worried. When someone went to check on him, they found Jesse very ill in bed. Jesse was taken to the hospital in Vincennes, Indiana, where the nurses found $1500 sewn into his underclothes. When Jesse recovered from pneumonia, he was sent to live in a nursing home. |
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| Origin: | 1971-05-13 |
| Source: |
http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/1400 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives |
| Subjects: |
Dirt Dirty people Legends Folklore |
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