Vernon County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Trances Like Death-Some American Cases-The following one was reported from Nevada, Miss., Aug. 24, 1888. While the remains of twenty three unknown dead bodies were being removed from Deepwood cemetery, in that town, Superintendent G.W. McCain discovered a body which was partially petrified, and from its position evidently had been buried alive. The body was that of an infant probably a year old, and was lying on its face, with its legs drawn up and the bottoms of its feet resting on a coffin lid. [submitted by: Shauna W. - 2008]