Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-05-18
MILES srANDIsH's soNss
Harvard Historians Think tho Hare
Found the Doughty WarrIo.. utHs

Harvard Historians Think tho Har
c Found the Doughty Warrior, Rady
q Harvard historians think t'ar Ah3v
found the grave of CAPTAIN Nile
Standish Of Plymouth Rock sne seq,
H. as seems probable, the rrbmr nl
remains of the doughty warftaF lsv,
been found an interesting Ab torlca
controversy will be settled Il va
known that the body had be- %soretly
buried somewhere in the Ole Eu buI
the exact location has not bes sl0wr
to the satisfaction of histc rs. A
memorandum from a confer ben
Jamin Pryor, which had bea en- to
him by his father, who. in IN a, had
been told by his father who ended
the funeral, was to the effeet lat the
grave was marked by two a ee-cor-
nered stones. Harvard Co 70 his
torians interested themsely in the
matter, found the grave So marked
after a prolonged search, ec9,ed per-
mission to open the grave. md last
Monday they broke into TIL ancient
burial place. The one marked by the
triangular stones was opened first, and
a number of bones found, those of the
lower portions of the body being much
decayed, while the skull was quite
perfect, and from the presence OF long
hair coiled into a knot at the back it
was undoubtedly that of a woman who
might have been from thirty-6ye to
forty years of age. A cloth of some
Kind had been pinned over the hair,
n was secured around the face by
pins similar to those now in use.
which crumbled upon exposure to the
air Around the body was wrapped a
cloth, apparently of wool and Of home
manufacture. 1t was woven ir5tripes
OF alternate colors, which wis pro-
bably white and blue or green, al
though age had changed them much.
The position of the stones c~orresponded
exactly with the head and feet of the
skeleton.
by sounding it was found that an,
other ancient grave existed five feet
away from the first, and this, too. was
opened. In it were found the bones of
! man who was plainly much older
the woman, and whose tooth
only one was found-was so much
Vorn as to indicate a person of
ldvanced age. Near the skull was a
mall quantity of light hair, nearly
Vhlte IN color. Arough measurement
moved the man to have been about
We ieet seven inches high, or a trino
Glow the ordinary stature. Tho
were photographed and then
ut back and the earth replaced.
Standish is spoken of as A short man !
y various writer's, but what their {
lthorlty is for the assertion is not [
nown, for no reference to his heirht F..
mentioned in any book on t
llgrlm history to which access has :
zen had. Standish directed in his '
i'll that he be laid "as neal as con. ,
lvlently may be to my two dear
'ughters. Sara S%tandish, nv
'ughter, and Mary Standish, nv I
lughter-in-law," and this may ac-
unit for the female skeleton near tho
ave opened recently. If further in !
'stigation should show that another b
oman's skeleton was buried beyond u
e graves ALREADY examined, it would S
strong evidence in favor of the pre. IL
mption that the last resting place of q
plain Miles Standish had at last ii
en- found. ii
Prof. Hart, of Harvard Collego was ;
esent at the disinterment. It is
ended to make a precise statement III
the data bearing upon the sub d,
It, and communicate the same ia NJ
ne historical society for invcstiaa- ST
n. with a view of finding, if~'6ssibn, Oh
} burial place of Miles Standish.- W
ston Cor. N. Y. Sun. at