The Woman Who Was (Almost) Buried Alive
From the Washington Bee, July 14, 1894:
The South Carolina Anderson Intelligencer, dated a few weeks later, had an even more vivid report of the incident, quoting the not-dead-yet Eleanor Markham as she recalled her ordeal:
The South Carolina Anderson Intelligencer, dated a few weeks later, had an even more vivid report of the incident, quoting the not-dead-yet Eleanor Markham as she recalled her ordeal:
“I was conscious all the time you were making preparations to bury me, and the horror of my situation is altogether beyond description... I prayed to God for strength, and making another attempt succeeded in tapping on the lid of the coffin. At first I fancied the bearers would not hear me, but when I felt one end of the coffin falling suddenly, I knew that I had been heard.”
Markham’s near miss is one of the most notable cases of accidental premature burial on record—though, of course, there’s no way of knowing how many non near misses there have been over the years.
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