Persis Howard Hammond's body stolen

My dad's family line starts with the Hagans, then goes back on a branch to the Deals and then to the Hammonds.  The Hammonds were an old New England family.

One of my Hammond family ancestors was Eli Hammond (1768-1840).  He was born in Bolton Connecticut, a son of Nathaniel Hammond and Dorothy Tucker.  His first marriage was to Olivia Howard in 179. and they lived in Vernon, Connecticut.  They had 10 children, the last of which was stillborn on July 10, 1813.  Olivia died August 10, 1813.  My guess is that her death was a result of a complication of childbirth.

Eli remarried on May 25, 1814 to Persis Howard, his first wife's sister.  (I've seen this happen many times during this time period).  Persis had a daughter on July 22, 1815.   She had no other children.  Then she died on Jan. 9, 1822.   She was buried in the Old Burial Ground of North Bolton, Connecticut.

I don't have any "official" records of her death.  However, we do have the following:
1) a tombstone; and
2) a newspaper article;

Here are 3 pictures of her tombstone, (photos from www.findagrave.com):

 

The complete tombstone inscription reads:

Persy, wife of Eli Hammond

died Jan 9, 1822

aged 49

 her remains were taken from the grave.

I've also been fortunate enough to have a transcription index of a newspaper article, which reads:

Mrs Hammond, buried at Vernon (Connecticut) on May 13, 1822.  The comments read "Wife of Eli.  Body was disinterred and stolen after burial)."  Death date was listed as January 10 (1822).

I had never seen this before and was intrigued.  Its very rare to be able to find a newspaper article from this time period, much less one with this type of information.  Why would someone steal a body from a cemetery?  So I did a little internet searching and found a couple websites that might explain:

1)  The first one is from PBS's show "History Detectives" and is about body snatching.
(http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/body-snatching-around-the-world/)

2)  Another I found is from Forbes about and includes information about how bodies were taken from graves for the purposes of medical school training.
(https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/13/dissected-bodies-and-grave-robbing-evidence-of-unequal-treatment-of-19th-century-blacks-and-poor/#39af473a6d12).
They had an interesting note in this article - that there was a rise in the number of medical schools in the 19th century in American from 4 to 160.  So there was a huge demand for cadavers and there wasn't enough supply of "legal" cadavers.   So grave robbing became rampant.  In fact, Connecticut was one of the states in the early 1800s that passed a law against grave robbing, but it didn't work. 

In summary:
So we know that her body was stolen from the grave, as a fact, based on the tombstone and the newspaper article.  Then from the other articles about grave robbing, it would suggest that her body may have been stolen for medical school purposes.

There aren't many "official" records from this time period.  So information on Eli and his family is scant.  If  I were to get some probate records and land records, that would probably shed more light on this family.