Fun Fact of the Day...

More of a morbid fact of the day, but James Wilson, a Pennsylvania Signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in 1789 after being thrown in a debtor's prison twice, once while he was a Supreme Court Justice. He was buried in an unmarked grave to prevent creditors from trying to claim the body, thereby forcing the family to pay off his debts to get his body returned.

Creditors would often do this to be repaid the money they were owed.