The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-02-05
BORN AFTER BURIAL
OF Their Mother Were
Some Famous Men.
SOME VERY STRANGE GASES
Of People Who We're Buried
Alive and Lived to do
Much Good.

fact that he was born more than a
led. furnishing to the world one of
the most astonishing cases of reviv-
iscence on record.
General Lees mother was by no
means an entirely healthy woman
and the physician at Stratford, Va,
the home of Henry Lee Light Horse
Harry, was kept in almost con-
slant attendance. Mrs. Lee suffered
from catalepsy, and during a pro-
longed trance she was pronounced
dead. The body was prepared for
interment, and the morning of the
third day after her supposed death
the remains were laid to rest in
the family vault in the graveyard of
that pretty little Virginia village.
While the sexton was cleaning up
and arranging some fresh flowers to
be placed on the casket he heard
faint voice as though someone
calling for assistance.
of course the old man was some
what alarmed, but as he had seen
many years of service in the "cty
of the dead" he did not leave the
vault. He listened closely and the
voice was distinctly heard again.
Becoming satisfied that the voice
came from within the casket he at
once set to work and opened 1t, dis
covering that Mrs Lee was alive.
He then summoned assistance and
within a short time she was safe in
bed at her own home.
Mrs. Lees recovery was slow, but
she did regain good health and a lit
tie more than year after she was
buried alive her youngest son, Rob
ert E., was born, and thus came in
to the world one of the bravest men
and greatest Generals.
But there have been number of
cases of reviViscence, and General
Lee was not the only celebrity who
was actually born after the burial of
his own mother.
Sir Richard Edgecumbe's mother,
after a brief illness, was believed to
have expired, and she, too, was laid
away in the family vault About a
week after her supposed death the
sexton, from motives sufficiently OBJ
vious, aud entirely too often eXarcis-
ed, entered the vault and tried to
take valuable ring from Lady Edge
cumbe's finger. During the sections
efforts 10 secure the ring by press
ing and squeezing the finger, the
body moved almost TO one side. This
sudden awakening of the dead caused
the sexton 70 flee in terror, leaving
lis lantern in the Vault.
Lady Edgecumbe succeeded in ex-
Treating herself from the casket, and
taking the lantern which the fright
ened sexton had left in his flight,
she walked TO her home. Under care
full treatment she regained her health,
ana five years after this Sir Richard
was born
Another notable case of reviviscence
was that of Ebenezer Erskine, one of
the founders Of the United Free
Church, of Scotland, who was born
after the llrial of his mother. Mrs.
Erskine while in a trance, was pro-
nounctd dead, and was burkd in a
grave, there being no vault. TheI
gravedigger had noticed a very cost
ly diamond ring ON the finger of
MIS-. ErEkine and he determined that
he would that night open the grave
and secure the ring. Stealthily he
removed the earth from the newly
made gravJ and opened the coffin.
The lady's hard had swollen and the
gravedigger could not get the ring off
the finger, SO he was in the act Of
cutting off the finger when the SUPP
uoscd cOrrse gave a loud shrek. Per-
Ihaps no man ever vacated a grave
yard quicker Than did that gravedig-
ger, AMI Mrs. Erskine arose from her
coffin, hurried to her home, and lived
to become the mother of one of the
greatest pulpit orators Scotland ever
produced.
Henry +. Hupers, at one time a
large planter and cattle owner of
Beaumont, Texas, was born after the
supposed death Of his mother. Mrs.
Hupers, like Mrs. Lee, suffered from
cstalepsy, and while in long trance
her physician pronounced her dead.
she was placed in coffin, but just
before the funeral services She OPP
entd Ler eyes and asked, in faint
voice, fol a drink of water. Thel
grief stric, en- family and sorrowing
friends were greatly alarmed and
frightened over this sudden coming TO
life, but the water was pressed to
her lips and in a few moments she
had returned 10 entire consciousness,
and after a short illness regained her