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Premature burial. Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally on the mistaken assumption that they are dead, or intentionally as a form of torture, murder, or execution. It may also occur with the consent of the victim as a ...
Safety coffin. Taberger's Safety Coffin employed a bell as a signaling device, for anybody buried alive. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th ...
Historic site. Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond. An American Civil War memorial was erected there in 1891, and chapel constructed in 1902.
Burials in Franklin County, Ohio, by place (1 C) Burials in Hamilton County, Ohio, by place (4 C) C. Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio (11 P) E.
The cemetery was established in 1826 at what was then the edge of the city, [2] taking its name from East 9th Street's original name. [3] It was the city's first permanent cemetery, replacing a community burial ground just south of Public Square. [4] Many of Cleveland's earliest pioneers and leaders are buried there, including Lorenzo Carter ...
The Pike County Shootings, also known as the Pike County Massacre, occurred on the night of April 21–22, 2016, when eight people – all belonging to the Rhoden family – were shot and killed in four homes in Pike County, Ohio, near the village of Peebles, 50 miles (80 km) from Columbus and 60 miles (97 km) from Cincinnati.
Known for. Surviving the highest known radiation dose in any human. Albert Stevens (1887–1966), also known as patient CAL-1 and most radioactive human ever, was a house painter from Ohio who was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. [1]
November 27, 1992. Thomas Lee Dillon (July 9, 1950 [1][2] – October 21, 2011) was an American serial killer who shot and killed at least five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992. [3][4] He was nicknamed "Killer" for boasting about shooting hundreds of animals. [5]