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Shepherdstown Register
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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During exhumation in Mobile's new graveyard Potter's Field, a Federal soldier's body, buried less than nine months, was discovered perfectly petrified. It was reburied in the soldiers' cemetery, with witnesses confirming the natural features preserved in stone.
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In exhuming the bodies interred in the Potter's Field of the new graveyard a short time ago, one of the coffins broke, and revealed to the astonished gaze of the grave diggers the remains of a Federal soldier, perfectly petrified, and looking as natural as life. What was further remarkable he had not been buried upward of nine months. A new coffin was procured and the remarkable image of nature's workmanship recommitted to its mother earth in the soldier's burying ground. Several prominent gentlemen of our city visited the spot at the time, and can testify that the body had turned to solid stone, with all the features as natural as life. The ground where he was buried is low and damp most of the year.—Mobile Register, 12th.
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Mobile
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A Short Time Ago
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federal soldier's body petrified after burial of upward of nine months; reburied in soldier's burying ground
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While exhuming bodies from Potter's Field in the new graveyard, a coffin broke revealing a perfectly petrified Federal soldier looking natural as life. The ground is low and damp. Prominent gentlemen testified to the petrification.