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Cancetto Farmica was a young Italian carnival worker who was killed in a fight just across the state line in South Carolina in 1911. The nearest place to have a body embalmed was in Laurinburg, North Carolina, at the McDougald Funeral Home. Founded in 1881, the home is today the oldest operating family-owned funeral service in the state. Farmica's father paid for the embalming and said he would sent money for the funeral. The money never came. The funeral home retained the body in a glass case. The business moved four times over a sixty-year period, and each time took the body, now known as the Laurinburg Mummy, with it. Hodge recounts events from these sixty years and the final disposition of the body.
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11507
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When Giuseppe Camiola, a young Italian carnival worker was killed in a fight, the nearest funeral home was the J. W. MacDougal one in Laurinburg. MacDougal did a fine job of embalming and then waited for the deceased's family or someone to pay for the work. No one claimed the body, and as it was taking up space, MacDougal hung it on the wall. Twenty-three years later the deceased still hangs on the wall, and thousands of people come by every year to look at it.
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