AMITY, INDIANA—The remains of two women, a man, and four children have
been recovered from a family plot in the middle of a road in rural
central Indiana. The Associated Press
reports that a team of archaeologists from the University of
Indianapolis were investigating the area ahead of the expansion of the
road when they found the graves. All but one of them were thought to
have been moved in the early 1900s when the road was constructed. Nancy
Kerlin Barnett’s grandson is said to have defended her 1831 grave with a
shotgun. “As it stands right now, it looks at least in the immediate
area by where we feel like where the Nancy Kerlin Barnett grave was,
nothing was removed,” said archaeologist Christopher Schmidt. The road
remains closed while the investigation continues. For more on
archaeology in the Midwest.
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