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Buffalo Cemeteries, An Account of the Burial Places of Buffalo
From the Earliest Times
Read Before the Buffalo Historical Society, February 4, 1879
by WILLIAM HODGE
Pub. Bigelow Brothers, Buffalo, N.Y.; 1879

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                           THE MOUND - A MYSTERY
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        On the high ground of the GRANGER farm between Forest Lawn proper,
     and the old homestead of that farm, there was formerly a circular
     mound that contained many human bones. Here, when a boy, sixty years
     ago, I used to pick up bits of bones. There were then no entire ones,
     but a large quantity of small pieces that had been plowed over and
     over again. When buried, they must have had but a slight covering of
     earth. Among the pieces were found some entire sound teeth. Tradition
     said at that time that there had been a battle fought near there, by a
     race of people inhabiting this country, very many years since, and
     long before the Senecas possessed it; as they have no knowledge of
     this race of people, and know nothing about how those bones came
     there.

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