Coffin of "Geant Beaupre" Miniature 19c | ||
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Posted 8 years ago
boysfarm
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At two inches long its a small casket. I think its some sort of "relic"?
Everything at this sale had tags which were written by several generations of the family.
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Guess everybody has to get their kicks somehow.
Small coffin for someone 7 feet 8.1 inches (2.34 metres) and he weighed 362 pounds (164 kilograms) he was known as Beaupre the Giant , A star in Barnum and Bailey's circus a freak show giant, wrestler, strongman, Died at a local St. Louis hospital on July 3, 1904 and brought to Willow Bunch in 1990, cremated and buried.
Story below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Beaupr%C3%A9
Geant in French = Giant in English. Born in Montreal area near Maine U.S.