{"id":2260,"date":"2022-06-07T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2022-06-06T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:54:20","slug":"buried-alive-the-story-of-octavia-hatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Buried Alive &#8211; The Story of Octavia Hatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Hatcher married Octavia Smith in Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1889.  The couple had a son, Jacob, who died shortly after his birth and Octavia soon spiraled into a deep depression which led to her slipping into a coma.  She was pronounced dead (without an autopsy) on May 2, 1891 and was buried in Pikeville Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>But she may not have been dead after all.<\/p>\n<p>Today on our YouTube channel we tell the tragic story of Octavia Hatcher, another bit of the history of Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DIhusgO_csg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click that &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; button down below the video on our channel if you haven&#8217;t already done so; ding the bell to be notified whenever we release a new story; and give us a thumbs-up, if you don&#8217;t mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hatcher married Octavia Smith in Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1889. The couple had a son, Jacob, who died shortly after his birth and Octavia soon spiraled into a deep depression which led to her slipping into a coma. She was pronounced dead (without an autopsy) on May 2, 1891 and was buried in Pikeville Cemetery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"We have a new story for you on our YouTube channel! #Appalachia #ghosts #history\r\nBuried Alive - The Story of Octavia Hatcher","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,55,43,34,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epidemic","category-ghosts","category-mysteries","category-the-1890s","category-tragedy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}