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A mummified US man, known as Stoneman Willie was finally buried after over a century as a local legend in Pennsylvania. | World News
A mummified man who has been lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years has finally been given a burial after being identified as James Murphy, a New Yorker of Irish descent. Finally, the man only known as "Stoneman Willie" will be buried.
READING: After more than a century living with a macabre mystery, the US town of Reading, Pennsylvania closed the casket on its oddest-ever resident – a mummified man who was finally buried.
"Stoneman Willie" was revealed to have been named James Murphy as his gravestone was unveiled.
James Murphy, nicknamed ‘Stoneman Willie’ because of hard skin from experimental embalming, has been ‘gawked at long enough’