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C. Tomasello - The Final Voyage
[author: Claudia Tomasello - postdate: 2007-12-01]

Text: On track
Task: Page 86

 

Charles Coghlan was born in 1841, in Ireland. His family was poor.

He was sent to England  to study, but some years later when he returned home with a good university degree, he decided that  he wanted to be an actor!

His father was angry , but he was determined.

Charles left his family and in some time he became a first-class actor; he was a naturally talented one!!

 

He died on stage, in the summer of 1898 in Galveston ... He was fifty - seven years old.

A week later he was buried in a lead - lined, but in 1900 the great hurricane hit Galveston. A lot  people died and the cemetery was washed into the gulf of Mexico.

Eight years later, fishermen off the cost of Prince Endward Island, saw a big box ... It was a coffin with a bodystill inside ... He was Charles Coghlan!

in the end, he was buried in the cemetery next to the small church where he had been baptized in 1841!