Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — Miles Standish's Grave. [ARTICLE]

Miles Standish's Grave.

Theite has always been a tradition that the grave of Mies Standish, the location of which has been a matter of much speculation to historians,’ was in the old graveyard at South Duxbury, Mass., and the authority of this has Been traced hack to an old shipbuilder who died there eighteen years ago at the age of 95, and who, some years before his death, said that his father had pointed out the spot to him and that “it was marked by two threecornered stones.” That grave was opened recently, and two skeletons were found, one of a man and another of a woman. Mies Standisli’s will directed that he be laid “as near as conveniently may be to my two dear daughters—Lora Standish, my daughter, and Mary Standish, my daughter-in-law.” If investigation should show that another woman’s skeleton was buried beyond the graves already examined, it would he strong evidence in favor of the presumption that the last resting-place of Capt. Miles Standish had at last been found.