Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — An Historic Old Graveyard in Pulaski County. [ARTICLE]

An Historic Old Graveyard in Pulaski County.

The old graveyard, a mile and a half below town, near Dead Man’s Hollow, and below the Tippecanoe river railroad bridge, which is noted as the burial place of a brother of Daniel Boone, also a place where many a noted Pottawattamie Indian sleeps his • last sleep, is the oldest graveyard in this part of the state, and was undoubtedly selected on account of its fine location on the bank of the Tippecanoe river. A beautiful grove of trees has grown up, over the graves, through whose branches the winds sing requiems to the illustrious dead. Below the graveyard is Dead Man’s Hollow. 'Twas here that a white man, an Indian agent, one hundred, years ago, driving over the bridge that spanned the narrow chasm below, fell through, team and all, and was found dead by a party of Pottawattamie Indians. The brother of Daniel Boone, who is buried in this graveyard, came here about the year 1798. He came from North Carolina with his brother, Daniel, and party to where Boonesboro, Ky., now stands. They built a fort thereto defend themselves against repeated attacks of hostile Indians. Daniel in 1798 moved to Louisiana, the brother as above stated, finding his way to Winamac. The manner of his death ie not known, but tradition ■Ma it died here before the

old PottaWatamie chieftain passed in his checks, the latter’s death having: occurred here in 1836.—-Wina-mac Democrat Journal.