Hardin County, Largest Human Bones

1. The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1833. It is named for John Hardin, an officer in the American Revolution.

Dear Sir, — In the fall of 1856, in Hardin County, Ohio, near the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railway, between Mt. Victory and Ridgeway, I commenced moving a gravel bank for the purpose of ballasting a part of the above railroad. I learned shortly after my arrival there, that the bank was an ancient burial ground. This information caused me to examine the ground, and note discoveries.

. . .The mound covered an area of one and a half acres;  being covered with an orchard of apple trees, then in bearing . . . the mound is what i would call double; the larger and higher part to the west. About two thirds of the mound was embraced in this part. The eastern part, presenting the appearance of a smaller hill having been pressed against the other, leaving a depression between them of three or four feet, below the highest point of the smaller and five or six feet below a corresponding point of the larger.

. . . On the north side of the eastern portion, under an oak tree stump (150 year old by growths) was the remains of the largest human bones I have ever seen. The joints of the vertabra seemed as large as those of a horse. . . I found in this part of the mound the remains of at least fifty children, under the age of eight years; some with two, others with four incisors; some with eight and others with no teeth.

References & Other accounts in this county:

1. . . ” John B. Matson. M.D. to Judge John Barr, Cleveland, December 10, 1869 Ancient Burial Mound and its contents, Hardin County, Ohio.
2. History of Portage County Ohio, Containing a history of the County, 1885 pg 220
3. A Tradition of Giants, Ross Hamilton:  footnote 270The History of Hardin County, Ohio, 1883
4. History of Hardin County. Ohio. Nephilim Chronicles. page 76.
5. A twentieth century of Hardin County, Ohio 1916. Nephilim Chronicles. page 93. “some of them being gigantic in size”
6. A study of the glacial Kame Culture, in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. 1948. Nephilim Chronicles. page 94. “two skeletons of giant size, one male and one female.

1. John B. Matson. M.D. to Judge John Barr, Cleveland, December 10, 1869

Ancient Burial Mound and its contents, Hardin County, Ohio.

2. History of Portage County Ohio, Containing a history of the County, 1885 pg 220

3. A Tradition of Giants, Ross Hamilton:  footnote 270The History of Hardin County, Ohio, 1883

4. History of Hardin County. Ohio. Nephilim Chronicles. page 76.

5. A twentieth century of Hardin County, Ohio 1916. Nephilim Chronicles. page 93. “some of them being gigantic in size”

6. A study of the glacial Kame Culture, in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. 1948. Nephilim Chronicles. page 94. “two skeletons of giant size, one male and one female.