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