From: "Linde Grace White" <lwhite6@cinci.rr.com>

Subject: RE: an article from the Interior Journal
Date: Thursday, December 04, 2008 6:01 PM

I recently responded to someone's brick wall query and got a lot more back
than I ever expected!  Maybe all this information is common knowledge around
Stanford and surrounding area, but it was news to me.  The ancestor in
question is my 3x great grandmother, Celia Hoy Newland.  My brick wall buddy
was looking for some information about her, but provided me with a real
stunner.  There was an article in The Interior Journal in 1885 concerning
the reburial of Grandma Celia where she was to be moved from the family
homeplace to the Buffalo Springs Cemetery.  Well, okay.  The stunner was
that her son, a double great uncle to me, opened the box to find her
perfectly preserved after 21 years in the grave.  The article was short and
gave little additional information. It was headlined: "Petrified Lady."
Sometime later, Goebelene Singleton who, I believe, is the person I knew as
Goebelene Harrod, a cousin (?) or niece (?) of my grandmother, Alice Jane
White Livingston, wrote a piece about the article which had appeared in
1885.  Goebelene told about hearing the story from her grandmother (whom I
also knew), but she did not add much further information.  Her article is
completely undated so I have no idea when she was writing but surmise that
it might have been in the 1920s or 30s as she was pretty old when I knew her
(although everybody as old as my mother was ancient to me then).  Goebelene
was still living about 5 years ago because Gene Martin had talked to her,
but she was quite old then.  I don't know if she is still living now, but
she would be past 90.  My mother, were she living, would be 93 this April.
 
Now all my curiosity genes are marshalled for the investigation.  I have
recounted this story to the current editor of The Interior Journal, Mr.
Geoge Lewis, to see if he can find more information.  My question to you is:
has this story already been done to death around Lincoln County?  Is there
more information I could uncover?  Due to fear of graverobbers, my family,
back then, was reluctant to share much information but I think now would be
a good time to write that piece up for possible pubblication somewhere
including the Lincoln County Genealogy site.  I don't know if any of my
distant relatives would be more than simply interested. The closer ones are
fascinated!  The particular double great uncle did not have children of his
own, so it would be descendents of his nieces and nephews that might be
interested and I don't know many of them.  Do you have any idea as to where
I might start to look for further information?   Thank you very much.   I
hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

Linde Grace White