Phenix Gazette

Remarkable Circumstance.—The following may be relied on as a fact, and persons are now in this borough who were present when the occurrence took place. There is no doubt but that during the prevalence of the Cholera, numbers were interred prematurely. Albert T. Whelden left Easton on the 27th of June, 1832, and arrived on the line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, near Shepherdstown, Maryland, on the 3d of July. On the 15th of August, at 3 o'clock, P. M. he was attacked by the Cholera, which was then raging in that neighborhood, and which in almost every case proved fatal. Whelden sent for a physician who attended, and prescribed the usual remedies. At 6 o'clock he was pronounced in the collapsed stage of the disease, and at 7 was to all appearance dead. At 8 o'clock he was placed by a few friends in a coffin, and taken in a light wagon to the place of interment, about half a mile distant. When arrived at the grave a groaning was heard proceeding from the coffin, and on opening it, poor Whelden exhibited signs of life, and was liberated from his disagreeable confinement. He is now alive and well, and resides in our borough.

Easton Democrat.