Noble County, Eight Feet
The county is named for Rep. Warren P. Noble of the Ohio House of Representatives, who was an early settler there.
Huge skeletons — in the Seneca Township (Noble County, Ohio) was opened, in 1872, one of numerous Indian mounds that abound in the neighborhood. This particular one was locally known as the “Bates” mound. Upon being dug into it was found to contain a few broken pieces of earthenware a lot of flint heads and one or two stone implements and the three skeletons, whose size would indicate that they measured in life at least eight feet in height. The remarkable feature of these remains was that they had double teeth in front as well as in the back of the mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the atmosphere the skeletons soon crumbled back to mother earth.
- Historical Collections of Ohio, Volume, 2 1885. “the remains of three skeletons, whose size would indicate that they measured in life at least eight feet in height. . . they had double teeth in front as well as in back of the mouth and in both upper and lower jaws.”
- Historical Collections of Ohio, Volume, 2 1908. page 350. Noble County, Ohio. 1972. GIANTS ON RECORD, Americas Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files. page190.