Tim I have never heard of this but I loved the story I am searching for Campbell, Atwell, Fortner, and Hollar in the Iredell Area Belle > From: Tim Treadwell <birdsong@ncnatural.com> > To: NC-IREDELL-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NC-IREDELL-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 12:08 PM > Subject: Iredell halloween story/question > > >Greetings, > >This is really vague and I don't know if anyone will be able to help > figure this out or not, but since it's close to halloween it seems like > a good time to try and see if anyone knows who this story might refer > to. It's a little bid morbid, but it has a happy ending, though it > doesn't say much for the character of some of my kinfolks. > > > >My mother's family has lived in south Iredell Co. for many generations > in the area between Mooresville, McKendree's Church (Mayhewtown), > Davidson and Mt. Mourne. There is a story that her family has told for > years about a woman in the family who died and was buried. Shortly > thereafter, some of the boys in the family remembered that she had been > buried with a ring that they thought might be valuable and they decided > to dig her up and get the ring. They dug up the coffin and opened it and > tried to get the ring off, but it was stuck, so they cut her finger off > to get the ring. When they cut her finger off, she woke up. I can just > imagine the boys running away from the cemetery, screaming in the night > and falling over one another. Anyway, the story goes that she got up and > walked home and lived for many more years after she died. > > > >Now the trouble is that no one in the family knows who it was, when or > where it happened, other than that it was in their neighborhood. Many of > the family is buried at McKendrees Chapel Methodist, so it may have been > around there. So my question to the list is, does anyone have any idea > who it might have been? Anyone have a great grandmother with a missing > ring finger and two death dates? > > > >spookily yours, > >Tim Treadwell > >Raleigh, NC > > -- Welcome to my Genealogy web sites Evelyn Belle Brooks Long icq#15017803 mailto:belle@bigcountry.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~txwilbar/index.html http://members.tripod.com/Rebecca_long/index.html http://www.my-ged.com/brooks http://www.my-ged.com/long If you love Quilting you might try our Cyber Bee site at rootsweb. http://www.crafts.rootsweb.com/~quilting/