Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — Singular circumstance-Man with a Petrified Wife. [ARTICLE]

Singular circumstance-Man with a Petrified Wife.

A lew d.avs s’n-’P a gotifleinati rorfidingin Rising Sun Itiflian i, wit > had married a s?.-- ; olid litm-, wished to rem 'v - tiic body oi his wi't'to a new cetti-'fcry. I’ti'parations wet - -- made to lit it i-We.t, and laborers rqmm-d the grave in the ti-ttal manner; but when limy reached the coflim they e ml i not hit. it. s » great wisth • weight. After olitainiug consideradile assistaiice. however, the inen su.--H-eeded in raising the colun ir mi tin: toaili. Tli-ev tiu-ii hel su.-’u eiiri .sit tii it t:,--y c-uil l no! res! t the tem-i’ati a of peering into tiee.ifliii midT-.ii-ni :;g the reason lor its unusual weight Tney did so, and totitid much jo ithelr. surprise’, instead of the n inai’i~ i-f a ■ (iorpse; a stone timure, th---exact e- ui.terpart sos the -a oman who had died. This strati-.: ■' -t irv spread, aii-l hundreds ati l thou- ; sands of persons were present to see tiestrange spectacle. The husband took the body of ins departed j -pm-.se homd and has it there now, where it is visited by hundreds of the curious and scientific. The body seems to have been petrified, and to have become a p -rleet sto*’woman. The probability is that the body, has become adipocere, and will before long , melt’ or crutjible. il-.iw- the jiving, wife like.- the deceased, or how she relishes the idea of seeing No. I installed, thottgh a statue.-in her pl-ace, and l-.erselt neglected, is more t’mtn we can ~ iy. ■ The affair, ati best, is a peculiar and. novel one, and we marvel that the sapient Indianians do not arrest the twice-tn irrii d individual for bigamy. — Cincinnati Enquirer.