Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.com

This is one of those news items that is brief, ambiguous, apparently completely unresolved, and just plain weird.  The "Wilmington Sun," February 25, 1879:

Three weeks ago a lady died in Straitsville, and her body was buried in the cemetery. About a week subsequent, a lady and gentleman called upon the sexton who has charge of the cemetery, representing themselves to be the brother and sister of the dead woman. They requested the sexton to open the grave. Supposing that they wished to identify the remains, this request was complied with. The coffin was exhumed, the lid was removed, and the two parties stepped forward, and, to the astonishment of the sexton, proceeded to lift the corpse from the coffin.

Having accomplished this, they made a minute examination of the shroud and grave clothing, carefully removing every pin which was used in fastening the clothes. These, together with a finger-ring which they removed from a finger of the corpse, were thrown far off into the surrounding snow. Then, after rolling the corpse over several times, they replaced it in the coffin, screwed down the lid, assisted the sexton in replacing the same in the grave, and expressed themselves satisfied. Not a word of explanation was given to the bewildered sexton relative to their strange procedure. The twain are said to be from Hartford.

I can't even guess what this was all about, but I'm betting this family had quite a history.