Nineteenth-Century Grave Looted in Indiana

HARRISON COUNTY, INDIANA—Archaeologists with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources assisted Indiana conservation officers with the investigation of a looted grave in rural Indiana. The grave, located on private land, belonged to Nancy Brown, who died in 1881 at the age of 47. “We teamed up with our state archaeologist and went to the site and needless to say we found a pretty disturbing scene,” conservation officer Jim Schreck said in a report by Wave 3 News. He thinks that multiple people were involved in carrying tools to the remote site and exhuming the grave. Investigators are now looking for Brown’s living relatives with the help of the Harrison County Public Library Genealogy Department. For more on archaeology of nineteenth-century America, go to "Mr. Jefferson’s Laboratory."