Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Remarkable Petrifaction. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Petrifaction.

A remarkable case of petrifaction was discovered when the body of Solomon Kreppes was exhumed in Taylor’s Cemetery, near Brownsville, Pa., for removal to another graveyard. The grave was near the fence which separates the cemetery from the national pike, and it is supposed that water percolating through the limestone road bed had kept the body covered with a calcareous solution. The clothing was found well preserved, although the burial took place eight years ago. The hair and beard were crisp and felt like threads of glass. The body was entirely turned to stone, and so hard that smart blows with a pick made no impression.