Case file · Folklore / legend
Rachel Burton exhumed, Manchester VT
In 1793 Captain Isaac Burton of Manchester, Vermont, exhumed his first wife Rachel to try to save his dying second wife Hulda. Her heart, liver and lungs were burned before a crowd.
1793 CE · 43.16, -73.07 · status: official
The account
Hulda died anyway in September 1793. The ceremony was described in a later town history.