Hardin County, Largest Human Bones
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:
- . . ” John B. Matson. M.D. to Judge John Barr, Cleveland, December 10, 1869 Ancient Burial Mound and its contents, Hardin County, Ohio.
- History of Portage County Ohio, Containing a history of the County, 1885 pg 220
- A Tradition of Giants, Ross Hamilton: footnote 270The History of Hardin County, Ohio, 1883
- History of Hardin County. Ohio. Nephilim Chronicles. page 76.
- A twentieth century of Hardin County, Ohio 1916. Nephilim Chronicles. page 93. “some of them being gigantic in size”
- 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.
- 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.