Monroe County GaArchives News.....COMES TO LIFE JUST BEFORE OWN FUNERAL September 25, 1919
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS September 25, 1919
COMES TO LIFE JUST BEFORE OWN FUNERAL.
Monroe County Negress Cause* Panic Among 
“Mourners” 

  Forsyth,Ga.—Corming to life in time to 
attend her own funeral was the 
interesting, experience of old “Aunt 
Mary” Callaway,
Of Monroe county. 
  Aunt Mary is an interesting figure 
because she is 
reputed to be more than a hundred years 
old and now she is doubly interesting to 
the negro population of this county by 
reason of the fact that she came to life 
just when relatives were ar-riving for 
her funeral and when the mourners were 
beginning to foregather. 
   For several days the old negro had 
been hovering between life and death, 
and, after a prolonged sinking spell she 
was adjudged dead and the “bretherin and 
sistein” were preparing for a real 
“society burying;” and relatives, 
notified by tel-egraph of her demise, 
had begun arriving from Atlanta,,Macon 
and Griffin, when the supposed corpse, 
decided she wasn't dead and regained 
consciousness, to the surprise and 
bewilderment of the friends who were 
“sitting up” With the body. Now the 
funeral is indefinitely postponed. 

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