Evening journal., 1913-02-04
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Story Of the Burial Of
Mad Anthony" Wayne
By Hodana

I'm the early days Of my practice
as a lawyer, / was occasionally call
ed to Buffalo from my home town Of
Albion, in the western part OF New
York State" said the late Judge Noah
Davis to me a year or two before his
death, in 1901.
Judge Davis was very prosperous
as lawyer from the time he was
admitted to the bar In his early life
he was partner of Senator e.
Church He became chief justice OF
the highest court of New York State.
and was, in 1865, leading candidatS
for the Presidential nomination at
the Democratic National Convention
Judge Davis himself served in Con-
gress and was beaten for the United
States Senate by Roscoe Conkling by
only two votes. He was the Supreme
Court judge who tried William NJ.
Tweed and Edward S. Stokes.
"One evening after supper, at my
hotel at Buffalo, to which city had
been called on law business" con-
tinued Judge Davis, II met an elderly
man with whom l. got into friendly
conversation. He told me that in his
younger days he lived at the little
village of Pressure Isle"
did not that afterward become the
town of Erie" J asked him.
The judge answered In the affirma-
tive He said he remembered very
well the blockhouse which was built
at that place. II was a. sort OF fort
I ~ n q or n1r dnf
against the Indians.
He told me, furthermore. a good
deal about General Wayne, Familiarity
known as "Mad Anthony" the ReYo-
lutionary General who captured
/ Stony Point on the Hudson and whose
military services at the battle Of
/ Yorktown just before the surrender OF
Lord CORVALLIS were OF inestimable
value.
After the Revolution General Wayne
led the campaign against the Indians
of the West and established fort in
Indiana, to which he gave his name
and which afterward became the
hourishing City of Fort Wayne.
THE old gentleman told me some
thing which | had forgotten namely
that General Wayne on his return
from one of his expeditions to the
West was taken i'll at Presque Isle
and for several days was cared for
by the soldiers in the blockhouse. He
died there, and was buried within the
blockhouse limits
THE old gentleman said that while
he had no recollection of the death
of General Wayne yet he vividly re-
called the disinterment of General
Wayne's remains.
HE said that there came from the
County of Chester. Pa. or one of its
suburban villages, a little party OF
men who said they we're authorized
to search for the remains of General
, Wayne and to take them to his ma
tive village in Chester county. The
people of that county had awakened
to the fact that one OF the heroes OF
I the Revolution was a native of the
D county, and that he lay in an unrecog
nized grave on the shores of Lake
Erie They decided to have the re-
mains taken to Chester county ant
reinterred with honors, the place sub
2 sequently TO be marked with a per
E manent and appropriate monument.
D "The old gentleman told me-" con
tinued Judge Davis, "that he was on'
y of those who made search for Gen
a eral Wayne's grave. He thought
was about the year 1910. If it wer'
in that year, General Wayne had beer
buried fourteen years.
= "They had great difficulty at frs
: IN deciding where the grave was, and
] in fact, two or three mistakes werl
l. made. They were very doubtful abou
being able to recognize by any iden
tifying mark the remains OF Genera
J. Wayne
d "At last. the old gentleman con
4 tinued, they disinterred what remain
: ed Of a coffin and, having opened il
they saw a skull and also a militar
l. uniform. The ravages had PRACTICAL
s. left nothing but the skeleton and tn
s uniform. These ravages had scarce
ly impaired the uniform. The insight
;, of a major-general were upon tn
II coat, and that was sufficient thorough
h ly to identify the mortal remains O
h General Wayne Very tenderly an
=, carefully these remains we're reincas
= ed. uniform and all, and were con
u veyed 70 Chester county, Pa.
Years afterward, said the oil
gentleman 4 was visiting Philade
phia, and took advantage of the OF
portunity to go TO Chester count.
There ! saw the grave and the hant
n some monument erected over il
" memory Of General Anthony Wayne
Copyright, 1918. by F. J. Edward
D. All rights reserved)
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