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More 4hont That Old Vint tie field.—To the Editor:—Mr. Thomas Banka, of Arrowsmith township, is a brother-in-law of Mr. Jacob Smith, on whose land is situated the old battlefield, spoken of in last week’s Pantagkaph. Mr. Banka came to this country several years before Mr. Smith did. He says that the rifle pita spoken of were plainly visible from quite a ] distance when he first came to the county. Mr. Banks now has many articles of domestic and warlike nature, once used by the Indians. Among them are knives, hoes, bark peelers, tomahawks, flints for spears and many arrow heads. In flttiug up a spring on this farm, he found remnants of a walnut gum or hollow’ logs, put in by the Indians. This spring is yet inuse by Mr. Banks1 family. Deer antlers ftwere found in the mud.Mr. Banks well remembers whore the dead bodv of the Indian was placed onEoles. He savs it was on land now owned y Mr. John Newcomb, of Cheney’s Grove township. He thinks the battlefield toldof, was during the war of 1812, but he can-rlt;not account for not fluding the bones of any white men. The bullets found by the hundreds on this battlefield are all about half ounce size. The parts of gun locks found show very fine workmanship, possibly of Spanish make. All have flint locks.Soon the venerable pioneers will all have passed to the other side, and such lnci-rliin f o anti i e/in tn c* + n n .kAn n ^ 1 n ♦ /./I
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Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 12, 1897
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