Daily Republican., 1879-03-13
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MAN WITH TWO GRAVES.
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CursOus Story Of Gen. Nayue's
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CursoUs story Of Gen. WHyne's
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Gen. Anthony Wayne is one OF the
lew famous men who has two graves,
. each equally entitled. to commemoration.
He died Of gout at Erie, Pa, then Fort
i'rssque Isle, in 1896, when he was on
..As return from the successful Indian
campaigns in the Northwest. lie was
buried at the foot OF the Tag statfin the
fort. and there lay uudisturbed tor
hearty twenty years. Then there came
through the woods from the other end
OF the State, in sulky, his son, Isaac
Wayne, III s.arch Of his fathers bones.
lie engaged DR.. John Z. Wallace, who
mad been through the Indian wars with
General Wayne, to exhume his bones,
and pack them in box, that they
might be strapped to the sulky and
taken through the woods and over the
mountains to the family residence in
Chester county.
When Dr. Wallace opened the grave
hs tound tu his great surprise, the
body in All almost perfect state OF pre-
s,rvation. The flesh had not decayed.
But it was impossible for young Wayne
TO carry the coffin and contents in his
sulky. 80 DI. Wallace, who seems to
have been as devoid of feeling as one
Of the Indians whom he fought, decid-
I'd on his own motion, and without con-
sultipg Mr.. Wayne, to separate the
Generals bones from their enveloping
flesh and thus enable them to be re-
moved. To accomplish this, boiling
had to b. resorted to, and the bones
were then denuded Of the flesh by the
uss Of knives, and were packed and
carried away by youns Wayne, and
buried near the homestead in which
General Wayne was born and in which
his descendants still live.
This acsount of ghoulli proceed
ings of DR.. Wallace has an incredible
,onnd, but it is literally and strictly
true, and will be corroborated by any
old citizen OF Erie. Young Mr.. Wayne
knew nothing of DR.. Wallace's opera
tions until many years after. He was
then greatly shocked and declared that
he would never have permitted such
would have returned them to the grave
AND postponed their removal TO a more
convenient season. Yet there is no rea
SON to doubt that DR.. Wallace, who
was useful and prominent man in his
day, thought he was doing everything
for til, best, aud meant nodisrespect to
the mortal part OF his old friend and
patient and army comrade, General
Wayne.
Over the Generals bones, in Chester
county, a monument was raised. But
nj, desh was returned to its grave at
GLa aag -stah, in Fort Presque Isle, by
Dr, Wallace, and forgotten. The fort
a III .rs stoekads-crumbled away, the
dag staff doUayed, and the precise loca-
tien OF the grave was lost.
some four years ago, however dig
ger for relics on the site of the old fort
unearthed coffin cover, into which
brass helded nail, wee SO driven as to
lerm the initials "a. W." without the
figures of Wayne's age, date of his
death, etc. This determined the loca.
ton Of his grave, and there has since
been in Erie feeling that it should be
marked by monument of some sort.
II has, ia fact, been surrounded by
chains, supported by four piec- of su-
peranuated artillery, and also mark d
by a flagstaff, but something more pc =
unanent is desired, and will doubtless
bs built-if not by legislative aid, then
hy local subscription. n.-Bu8alo EopreSs.