Spencer - James - 1891?
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Tuesday 19 May 1891
A lady from Waveland, Montgomery County, who is visiting in the city, tells an incident that leaves no doubt that an old citizen of Pisgah, near Waveland, was buried alive. The citizen’s name was James Spencer, and one of his sons had always believed that his father had been buried alive. Recently bodies were being removed from the cemetery in which the remains of Spencer had been buried and the coffin was open to find the body lying partly on one side, the hair disheveled as if the fingers had been run through it, the collar and necktie pulled from his throat and the left arm lying under the head. The lady who relates this story heard it related by a daughter-in-law of the deceased.—Terre Haute Express