Postmortem Portrait of Cornelius X Peg with Estelle and Isabella McGuire
When Cornelius X Peg died in 1922 his devoted family had him stuffed by the local taxidermist/funeral home and he continued to occupy his chair on the Board of Aldermen in Manigotapi Mississippi. Each year at the Nutria Festival he would be carried out in a wheelbarrow and propped up in a photographer's tent for photographs. He also served as a judge in the rat skinning competition.
In 1957 Cornelius X Peg lost his seat on the Board of Aldermen to Dewey Cheetham by a slim margin in a hotly contested election. He was pawned at the Liberal Loans and Finance Pawn Emporium, where he was later sold to a haunted Halloween attraction known as Mama Mercy's Graveyard Haints.
In 1972 he began to show signs of deterioration, so he was sent to Atlanta to be bronzed. Through a mix up in delivery by UPS, Cornelius was delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where he served for a brief time in the cabinet of President Richard Nixon. His calm demeanor inspired the ire of Spiro Agnew and Cornelius X Peg again disappeared from public service.
Today he sits in the corner booth at a House of Pancakes in Spitfiddle Georgia. Unable to pay, he refuses to eat the waffles the waitress served him in 1987. He has not complained that his coffee has gotten cold.
Postmortem Portrait of Cornelius X Peg with Estelle and Isabella McGuire
When Cornelius X Peg died in 1922 his devoted family had him stuffed by the local taxidermist/funeral home and he continued to occupy his chair on the Board of Aldermen in Manigotapi Mississippi. Each year at the Nutria Festival he would be carried out in a wheelbarrow and propped up in a photographer's tent for photographs. He also served as a judge in the rat skinning competition.
In 1957 Cornelius X Peg lost his seat on the Board of Aldermen to Dewey Cheetham by a slim margin in a hotly contested election. He was pawned at the Liberal Loans and Finance Pawn Emporium, where he was later sold to a haunted Halloween attraction known as Mama Mercy's Graveyard Haints.
In 1972 he began to show signs of deterioration, so he was sent to Atlanta to be bronzed. Through a mix up in delivery by UPS, Cornelius was delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where he served for a brief time in the cabinet of President Richard Nixon. His calm demeanor inspired the ire of Spiro Agnew and Cornelius X Peg again disappeared from public service.
Today he sits in the corner booth at a House of Pancakes in Spitfiddle Georgia. Unable to pay, he refuses to eat the waffles the waitress served him in 1987. He has not complained that his coffee has gotten cold.