Singularities .... The first night on which Samuel Scott, of Wartburg, Tenn., went into a bed to sleep he died. He weighed 350 pounds, and by a physician's advice used to sleep by kneeling upon the floor, with his head resting on a chair. Source: Omaha Daily Bee, Omaha, Nebraska, April 14, 1883 retrieved from The Library of Congress, Chronicling America.