DTCP 029 - Coughlin's Coffin
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When actor Charles Coughlin died in Galveston, Texas, in 1899, his family couldn't agree where he should be buried. While they debated whether his final resting place should be New York or Prince Edward Island, his body remained in a temporary mausoleum.
Then disaster struck.
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 destroyed the cemetery, sweeping Coughlin's coffin into the Gulf of Mexico and seemingly erasing any chance of recovering it.
Years later, an extraordinary story began to circulate. A coffin matching Coughlin's, complete with a weathered…
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