also known as Security Coffins, and Coffin with an Escape hatch, Burial vault with Escape Hatch
See oval metal plate between tombstones: these were sold in case of premature burial so that the not-deceased could climb back into the above-ground atmosphere.
Photographer: Alva Van Houten, 2014, Bellflower Cemetery, McLean County
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