Gnadenhutten Native Burial Mound

The Gnadenhutten Massacre took place in 1782 in what was then very much the frontier.  I covered this event in the blog, “The Moravians, the Ahekomeko Indians and the Gnadenhutten Massacre.”

As I was looking for something entirely unrelated, I stumbled across this picture of the Native burial mound in the Gnadenhutten-Clay Union Cemetery in Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

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This cemetery (one of the oldest in Ohio) was originally an Indian burial ground. Today there are around 500 burials here. The mound in the picture is 3 feet high & 10 feet across and contains the remains of the slaughtered Christian Native Americans.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSln=burditt&GSfn=ruth&GSby=1783&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSst=37&GScnty=2118&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=42911551&CRid=2169891&df=all&

About Roberta Estes

Scientist, author, genetic genealogist. Documenting Native Heritage through contemporaneous records and DNA.
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