The Daily News
(Denison, TX)
Thursday, April 10, 1879
pg. 4

A SINGULAR OCCURANCE
According to all accounts, a very strange affair recently happened near Whitesboro.  On the 2nd of this month, a  man by the name of Ingersoll died.  It was supposed that he died with a fit, being subject to them.  He was interred on the 3rd.
A neighbor of the deceased the next night, dreamed that a party in a wagon had driven up to the house of the mother of the deceased, and said her son was not dead, but had  been buried alive.
This dream being noised abroad, the next night 7 or 8  men, went to t he grave yard, dug up the coffin and carried it to a deserted cabin.  They unscrewed the coffin lid, and there was the body, apparently still living and breathing.  So convinced were they of this, that they sat him up in the coffin and while some attempted to revive him by stimulants and friction, others ran off for the nearest physician.
The doctor, Mr. Williams, soon arrived, and examined the body amid great excitement; and then stated that the man was dead, and had been dead for several days.  The body was quickly re-interred.  The affair had created much excitement in the neighborhood.