Volume 15 , Issue 25

1915 - Mourned As Dead Man Turns Up Alive

The Democraic Banner, dated Tuesday, September 28, 1915, out of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, had an interesting story concerning a man Mourned As Dead Man Turns Up Alive.

Poughkeepsie ,NY, Sept. 27, 1915 -- Andrew O'Brien, fifty, a well known resident of this city, returned to Poughkeepsie after an absence of a week to find that he was being mourned as a suicide and that prayers were being offered in St. Peter's church for the repose of his soul. When O'Brien arrived at the church there was consternation among the members of the congregation, and it was with great difficulty that O'Brien convinced his friends that he was really alive.

O'Brien was indignant when he learned that the body of a man supposed to be himself had been fished out of the Hudson river and that the body was buried beside that of Mrs. O'Brien in St. Peter's cemetery and that the headstone was being carved.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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