Higgins - Daniel - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Ladoga Leader – 28-year years ago, Daniel Higgins died and his body was buried in a metalic casket in the New Maysville cemetery. His widow afterward married George Eullin and they moved to Ladoga where she had typhoid fever and became insane.  She was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis where she is still confined. It is not expected she will live much longer, and as there was no room for her grave beside that of her first husband, it was thought best to remove the casket in which the latter was buried. Accordingly, one night las week, George and Lee Case of this place, accompanied by TJ Higgins of New Maysville son of the dead man, and several others went to the cemetery to remove the casket. They opened the lid and looking through the half-inch glass beneath, they found the body and clothing looking exactly as it did on the day of burial 28 years ago. Mrs. JT Higgins and her children were awakened and two or three other women accompanied them to the cemetery when for the first time they viewed the remains and lingered there while the interment was being made. The work was done at night on account of the heat and for greater privacy. It was just a little after midnight when the little group stood around the coffin and not yet 1 o’clock at night when the well preserved body was again lowered in a new grave. - kbz