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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 258, 12 April 1878, Page 7

„ 8 a , f a?t not generally known that the cemetery of the Methoftps -&CS3 sfeuas I" 8 WlfG i S °/ S^ b ? ing ifc back ' to this Stft te. Imag^S how amazed he was to find it in the coffin just as he had seen it thrZ years before. The same features-almost the Teiy same expresS™ w? ri a - fl hC , Sa T " Ofc flesh ~ ifc was solid ston « I The whole body had petrified. In that condition he carried it to North Carolina 3 his daughter 'had come back to him asleep ! The news spread that the body had been « turned into a rock," and great was the desire of theSa 7 X SCC & f i ttempt i S WCre made ' ifc i& Said ' t° «teal It out of the cellar where the old gentleman had carefully concealed it but fer* re » nsuc c«»f«l. • All through the war it was guarded by the tt Aho ?°- m ° St sacred tru^ but few persons being allowed to S it About sue years ago, however, ifc was quietly buried in the Metho-