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<blockquote data-quote="kjonesel" data-source="post: 1225850" data-attributes="member: 16842"><p>John Hunt Morgan and his raiders came across our farm on his raid through Southern Indiana in 1863. There is a spring over the hill where he (and everyone else) watered his horses. It is on the route between Corydon, Indiana and Salem. He was in the only other battle besides Gettysburg north of the Mason Dixon line. He was given credit for leaving a lot of good horse flesh throughout Southern Indiana as he traded out horses with the locals along the way.</p><p></p><p>I live on an old homestead of at least 150 years and the most interesting thing was when we went to dig a post hole for a lean to was running into a board. We were down about 3' when I hit board. I wasn't in a huge hurry since I was working by myself and began excavating it as it was laid flat. I dug it out and it appeared to be about two inches thick. I called my Dad and he came out to look at it and saw that it appeared to be chestnut wood. He cleaned it off some more and found it to be two boards flat on each other. After separating it we found what appeared to be cloth in between away from the edges. He said it appeared to be linen. We measured the width and length and he said that it was the same as what baby coffins used to be and the cloth was probably linen. When my father was a boy he used to earn money digging graves and he said it was not uncommon for a family to bury infants without a lot of fanfare. Where the lean to was going was near where the summer kitchen used to be and he speculated the family just buried there own. Here locally chestnut was the wood almost all coffins were made of and you could purchase them at the General Merchandise store in Palmyra.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kjonesel, post: 1225850, member: 16842"] John Hunt Morgan and his raiders came across our farm on his raid through Southern Indiana in 1863. There is a spring over the hill where he (and everyone else) watered his horses. It is on the route between Corydon, Indiana and Salem. He was in the only other battle besides Gettysburg north of the Mason Dixon line. He was given credit for leaving a lot of good horse flesh throughout Southern Indiana as he traded out horses with the locals along the way. I live on an old homestead of at least 150 years and the most interesting thing was when we went to dig a post hole for a lean to was running into a board. We were down about 3' when I hit board. I wasn't in a huge hurry since I was working by myself and began excavating it as it was laid flat. I dug it out and it appeared to be about two inches thick. I called my Dad and he came out to look at it and saw that it appeared to be chestnut wood. He cleaned it off some more and found it to be two boards flat on each other. After separating it we found what appeared to be cloth in between away from the edges. He said it appeared to be linen. We measured the width and length and he said that it was the same as what baby coffins used to be and the cloth was probably linen. When my father was a boy he used to earn money digging graves and he said it was not uncommon for a family to bury infants without a lot of fanfare. Where the lean to was going was near where the summer kitchen used to be and he speculated the family just buried there own. Here locally chestnut was the wood almost all coffins were made of and you could purchase them at the General Merchandise store in Palmyra. [/QUOTE]
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