Posted on 10/02/2020 12:01:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Mad Anthony Wayne didn't have long to enjoy his victory. He died in 1796 while traveling back east from the scene of his recent military and diplomatic triumphs. He was buried near Erie, Pennsylvania, a long way from his home in the southeastern part of the state. Some years later his family decided to bring his remains back to Radnor, Pennsylvania, for reburial, a decision that was to have some dramatic and unforeseen consequences.
Upon opening the General's grave, the excavators did not discover the skeleton they expected. Although more than ten years had passed since his burial, Mad Anthony's corpse turned out to be in remarkably good shape. Faced with the problem of transporting a decaying but still largely intact corpse, the excavators decided to scrape and boil away the flesh, and reduce the General to a bundle of relatively clean bones. What was left over supposedly got poured back into his original grave (with the exception of a few souvenirs taken by bystanders). The bones were then transported back to a church in Radnor for reburial.
The story doesn't end there, though. There is a strong oral tradition in Pennsylvania that all of Mad Anthony's bones did not make it back home. As the story goes, the bones had not been properly packed, and many of them were lost on the long overland trek from Erie to Radnor. This circumstance gave rise to one of the best ghost stories about a Revolutionary War hero. Every year on January 1, the General's birthday, Mad Anthony Wayne goes out searching for his lost bones.
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Remember the haunted General Wayne Inn?
Probably Wayne Co in Michigan as well, I’ve never checked that out.
Location: Maumee, Ohio
Coordinates: 41°32¢39<=N 83°41¢51<=W / 41.54417°N 83.69750°W
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fallen_Timbers
Actually read a biography of General Wayne.
Basically every place with that name is named after him.
And there are many, many places so named.
He really meant a lot to a lot of people based on his war exploits.
Wayne Avenue on Battle Hill, White Plains NY
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Mad Anthony Wayne’s Bones
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Posted on 10/2/2020, 3:01:00 PM by SunkenCiv
Dem Bones, Dem bones, dem maddd bones.
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Mad Anthony Wayne’s Bones
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Posted on 10/2/2020, 3:01:00 PM by SunkenCiv
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