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11,508 BODIES INTERREDAbove Number ot Persons Buried in Mound Cemetery—First Burial in 1852.There him ill ways boon a dispute a* to hnw miinv bodies w^ro buried in the beautiful Mound cemetery, Searching the record* Superintendent Henry l)no* j Un finds that with two interred in the j grounds today the number reaches the figure of 1L50S, Truly it is appropriately munod a city of I ho dead. As enumerators un* at work faking the cor.su* at present uml strife being evident In*tween Kjieine, Oshkosh, West Superior ami Li Crosses for the lead in populution, the auggestinn is inudo tlml some ul the other cities having been charged with counting in the dead in their cemeteries,thov might do so this dime. Kneino has * “never resorted to this kind of pa deling 11 nd will not.Speaking about the cemetery and number of dead interred, reminds us that the grounds lire beautifully located on elevated ground arid covers over six tv a errsof land. Svlvan Hell Creek winds its %wav tjkh'fully through the grounds, and is spanned by a handsome iron bridge, This Uuul was first purchased by Xor* man Clark and a Mr. McKenzie of n half-sbreed Indian named Wilmnt. living at Buffalo, and nineteen acres thereof was sold to the eitv in ISdO. Subsequently thirty acres wove added and then more.Thoro is no doubt hut that this was onec an Indian burying ground, for Iho reason there were many mounds on the site and from that fact it gained the name Mound cemetery. When some of these mounds were opened nuuiv Indian *k clot on* and instrument* nf wnr weyp exhumed. Move than one hundred nnd fifty skeletons were taken from the ground. The first ini or merit of p white man in these grounds was made in IS.‘2. so it has been a home for th* dead ever fifty years. The first, spy ton of trie com- I oterv was Owen Tlobert*. nnmnnb’d in•183U.
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Racine Daily Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jun 24, 1905
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