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found, and it is to be regretted that the exact position in which it or- 

 iginally laid was not noted. 



The characters engraved on the stone were not noticed until after 

 it had been removed from the grounds, and it was then too late to 

 locate it any closer than one of the ash pits opened on the 8th of Sep- 

 tember. 



On Monday, September 15th, a group of eight skeletons and four ash 

 pits were found. The following week was spent in exhuming this group. 



Fig 24. (W. C. Rogers' collection.) Inscribed Stone from Ancient Cemetery, Madisonville, 



Ohio. 



the members of which wfere disposed as follows: the first skeleton 

 was an adult, lying horizontal, head east; length 5 feet 5 inches; depth 

 18 inches. The second was also an adult, lying directly over the pelvis 

 of the preceding skeleton, with head towards the south, face upward, 

 at a depth of 16 inches, the length of this skeleton was 5 feet 2 inches. 

 An ash pit was found in the angle formed by the lower extremities of 



