Coshcocton County, More than 7′
Its name comes from the Delaware Indian language and has been translated as “union of waters” or “black bear crossing”.
Fifty Four year ago a stone mound was opened on a hilltop near the Colonel’s house. A rock pile eighteen feet square and five feet deep, composed of sandstone layers, was removed, revealing a sepulcher floored with a large flat sandstone, and walled with sandstone slabs. On the floor lay part of a skull, a thigh bone, teeth and a few other fragments of skeleton. The thigh bone indicated the dead to have been of unusual height,
more than seven feet.
In addition a “plum-bob” is similar to those in the Scioto Valley.
- Centennial History of Coshocton, County, Ohio 1909. “unusual height, more than seven feet.”
- Centennial History of Coshocton, County, Ohio 1909. ‘a skull and thigh exceptionally large.”
- Centennial History of Coshocton, County, Ohio 1909.a skeleton 7 feet long and a few relics.
- A tradition of Giants, Ross Hamilton: *footnote 88 Taken from Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio. book one, p. 982) originally “Pre-Historic Evidence In Linton Township” [PM]*footnote 227 The Newark Advocate, Tuesday, March 19, 1907
- History of Coshocton County, Ohio. Its Past and Present, 1740 – 1881. by Albert Adams Grahams, 1881 pg 603.
- History of Coshocton County, Ohio. Its Past and Present, 1740 – 1881. by (Second account) Albert Adams Grahams, 1881 pg 603.
- History of Coshocton County, Ohio. Its Past and Present, by Albert Adams Grahams, 1881 pg 54
- Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 44, 1927 pg 509.
- Twelfth Annual Report, 1894 (page 458) .By Little and Collins. A stone box grave with a seven foot skeleton was found. GIANTS ON RECORD, Americas Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files. page 249.
- https://archive.org/stream/centennialhistor01bahm#page/32/mode/1up
Notice that there are numerous accounts in this one county. Truth is its probably not exhausted. For skeptics, this is a bigger problem if your failed Worldview doesn’t allow for giants. ~Chris L Lesley