From the December 17, 1887 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Grand Forks, Dak.–Mrs. McVane, wife of Mr. E. McVane, a Northern Pacific official, is lying at the Ingall’s House either dead or in a state of trance so much resembling death that it is impossible at the present to detect the difference. Tuesday Mrs. McVane was taken with a spell of fainting, but recovered, and at dinner time went about her meal as usual, but when about to seat herself was taken with another fainting spell and was removed to her room unconscious. Her last words were: ‘My God, my God, don’t bury me alive.'”