Edwin William MacAllister

December 8, 1895 – January 7, 1977

Hilda Lydia Elsie Yakle MacAllister

March 17, 1897 – June 1992

There is an old saying that a man’s home is his castle which has its origins in English law first expressed in 1644, by English judge Sir Edward Coke.  Coke was quoted as saying, “For a man’s house is his castle”.
 

That sentiment is found in Book 4, Chapter 16 of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, “And the law of England has so particular and tender a regard to the immunity of a man’s house, that it stiles it his castle, and will never suffer it to be violated with immunity: agreeing herein with the sentiments of ancient Rome, as expressed in the works of Tully; quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium?” Loosely translated: “For what is more holy, what is more fortified against all religion, than the house of every citizen?“

In the case of the McAllister Mausoleum in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, a man’s mausoleum is his castle—literally—complete with castellated tower and battlements and a drawbridge!