Union City Evening Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1935 Casket which he made from a walnut tree he was buried in. - S. G. Wolford dies on his farm near Winchester, Indiana. Winchester, Ind. --- S. G. Wolford, who died Saturday at his farm northwest of Winchester, was buried this afternoon in a casket which Wolford himself made out of a walnut tree he had cut down on his farm. He also made the base for his tombstone out a a meteor which he found near his home. Wolford was a violin maker and was well known in this field throughout this section of the country. The casket, which was beautifully made, was just five feet nine inches long and only as wide as the man himself; as it was necessary to place the body on the side. His funeral directors are the only ones in Randolph County who ever buried a man in a home-made casket