Posted on 05/22/2022 9:25:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The headstone, etched with the name Thadius Peck (1711-1781), was discovered by Richard and John Ryan on April 18 as they were walking along the river looking for an old fishing spot. The two came across an "odd-shaped stone" in a clearing across from the river and took a closer look. They cleaned off the muck and moss that had grown on it, and realized it wasn't just a flat rock but a headstone for someone who had been dead for 241 years.
The stone is so old, it predates the founding of Cuyahoga Falls by three decades. It's even older than the Connecticut Western Reserve's settlement in the area that was founded in 1796.
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Our independence had been declared but the Revolution had not yet been been concluded nor our freedom won. The Constitutional Convention was another six years away.
Hopefully, they will include a GPS position on some kind of marker for the site. The people who found it might even had the capability for GPS. I would think so.
“From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls”. The Pretenders.
Actually, I'm older than Madonna -- except that she has to be measured in dog years.
But through all of that, he was still able to vote for Biden.
The relatives can now stop hunting (and pecking) for Thadius’s headstone, after it was swept away in the Great Flood of 1803.
The only thing older is Sleepy Joe.
The cement ray where my family is buried has headstones older than this...
Another early one on property on Tall Thomas Egypt plantation ...Miss delta....where I duck and deer hunted 1971-1982 extensively on Matthews brake a headwaters of the Yazoo River
They think she may have been betrothed to a planter family and died on board a small steamship em route and was buried on the bank of the river
She’s in remarkable state of preservation and was quite fetching when alive apparently
I don’t think she’s ever been identified
1840s
https://drivinvibin.com/2022/03/21/lady-in-red-coffin/
One of my favorite headstones is at Arlington National Cemetary. I don’t recall the name, but his rank was LTC. He made special mention of his “beloved second wife”, eternally dissing his first wife...lol.
I’ll bet old Thadius never thought he’d make headline news 241 years after his death.....
The city reported that there was only 2 feet of dirt beneath the stone and they are pretty sure it ended up being relocated there. That it definitely wasn’t a grave site.
Cuyahoga Falls and the area generally does a very good job with their historical preservation. Pretty cool find. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
They also stated that they are trying to find the original burial location to presumably return the headstone.
Im almost sure that guy voted in the last election for biden
One of my favorite things to do is wander around ancient cemeteries and look at the old headstones. My grandfather loved to do it and took me with him when I was little.
There is an old one about 1/4 mile from me with stones that date in the 1700’s. Some are so worn that you have to look at them from an angle to read them. Most are nothing but carved rocks.
The ones that grab at me are the ones from the 1700’s and early 1800’s that say “Baby (last name)”. They didn’t even name most of the stillbirths. Lots and lots of babies under a year old died. There is one in my family cemetery that says “Baby Vaughn”. He/she was my grandmother’s sibling but was not named. That was around 1898. Nothing even says if it was a boy or a girl.
I was just gonna say, “He was romantically linked to Chrissy Hynes” but you beat me to it!
I think he voted in Ohio’s Democrat primary
Here in Georgia that's a crime.
Assuming that the second wife wasn’t the author...
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