Who Was the Lady in the Coffin

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>In the 1950s in the Mississippi River town of Helena Arkansas young children unearthed an old coffin on their playground with a perfectly embalmed lady inside. The coffin was hermetically sealed with a glass cover revealing the woman's face. The children had no idea their playground had been a cemetery 150 years earlier. They knew that the Civil War Battle of Helena had taken place almost 100 years earlier but did not know that the grave markers were destroyed leaving unidentified bodies behind.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>The author describes the birth of this Delta town and details his years-long search for the lady's identity. Carrying this childhood memory for most of his life now in his eighties he has decided to tell his story. Looking back on his early years of seeing his first dead body he has set out to reveal the identity of the person unearthed and unknown buried on his playground.</span></p>