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styByTroy’s Historic Cemetery.brass ruins e An* s and office)i‘idlt;?e 31’ the e city b was their brassis.sionluableincolnto an ilroad )In atnegro. He 3n at were ! ex-ninedThe ioned said three or it.:l theandtakencoin-noti*mdayandThem'l'nUI'K Allmiiy Bvifi’nu.ISiKi K. Kliu Ht. IVl. (Mun». SOI.The Troy Cemetery at Troy, Ind., on the Oliio river, bears the distinction not only of being one of the oldest cemeteries in Southern Indiana, but it bears the further distinction of once having been an Indian burying grounds, and the burial place of a noted Indian chief, as well as the last resting place of a brother of Robert Fulton.In the latter part of the Eighteenth century the burymg ground was taken over by the white settler.s, but the Indian graves were not molested. Among the Indians buried there is Chief Cliarlie White Eyes, an famous Indian chief at the time that Troy, which is one of the oldest towns in Indiana, was settled. Ho was a friend of the white manWhen Robert Pulton made bis second trip down the Oliio river with the fir.st steamboat tliat ever plied the Western waters, lie left his brother at Troy to establish a wmod yard and operate a trading post. A few months later, the man, while engaged in rolling logs on the hill back of Troy, was caught by a rolling log, and killed. At the time he was arranging to erect a residence on the hill, and for many years thereafter the stone w’hich he had brought for the foundation remained on tlie ground. The liil! to this day is known as Fulton Hill.There are graves in the ceme-KCO.in I’G-Idrenr any ■ sell, , to a xteen‘para-ed oruade,anycliew'ersonision.sictionollarsluntythanhirtyEvsuisivillo Juunutl News.Cyril Leslie Dnwcli, staff writer for World's Work, drawing a .salary that would startle an iordinary fellow' intt) a. fit of theor to arrived in Evansvilleme to ; afternoon over the E.with I T. H., from Chicago on a lew'ed mission connected withmdor trip of Robt. Fulton, tlie inventor of llie fir.st steamboat, down the Ohio river. He will go to Troy, Ind., where he will gatherfacts for a special article to appear in the magazine which lie represents in the near future.A brother of Utibt. Fulton i.s buried at Troy in an unmarked gi’ave which has since been lost trace of. Dowell w’ill endeavor to lo..atc this grave during his stay in Troy. The brother accompanied Fulton dow’ii the Ohio on the memorial trip and left the boat at Troy wiiicli was a promising place in tlioso early days. He e.stabhsheil a primitive store and prospered until liis death.Mr. Dowell carries with him a tip that a diary Icopt by Fuiton’sbrother is In the pos.sossion of a man residing near Tell City and he will make an effort to get this for liis publication which may throw furlher light upon the history of the invention of the steamboat.Mr. Dowell formerly resided in Colorado Springs and later was a newspaper man of Denver, being star man on the Denver Times for some years where hos im-r giv-f!offini)ro-tory that are more than 100 n’ose-. years old, and many of the early settlers of Southern Indiana are buried there. Many graves were left unmarked, and it is not an unusual occurrence for grave diggers there to uneartli the bones of some person who ha.s long been forgotten.flOUSluntySat-the n tlio to be p as-:Huff t tlie in its sses-eforc
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Troy Times
Troy, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 13, 1909
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