Indian Burial Mound
An Indian Burial Ground
The Coal Creek Sensation and What There is in It.
Source: Thanks to Andy Rice for the submission! He found this article from "The Crawfordsville Review" published on on February 9, 1889 on the website of the "Hoosier State Chronicles"
A couple of interesting points from Andy about this article - I grew up in Jacob Luse's old farmhouse. He married Charlotte Martin, who was sister to my 3x Grandfather Amos Martin, farmer in Ft County. When my parents moved out of the old house we found his families' original portraits from the History of Montgomery County write up they/he had. My dad bought Jacob Luse's old farm from his descendants. The article says Whitlock but Wingate was temporarily named Whitlock on the map for 20? years back then due to politics and that its previous name Pleasant Hill was already on the map as another town in Ohio.
The gravel pit mentioned is on my dad's farm ground. I can see it from my front porch across the road on the county line. When the corn is gone, you can see the giant divot where they removed the gravel and bones.
It is astounding that they just dug up all of these Native bones and spread them to the wind. The article is full of phrenology pseudoscience as well. Nowadays we could do DNA analysis and find out where all these bones came from and when. I wonder what ever happened to any of them.
I should also add that we found Jacob Luse's portraits up in the asbestos and dead bird-filled attic that had to be reached by ladder and we were never allowed to look into.
Here is Andy's transcription of the article: