Name/Title
Human remains foundEntry/Object ID
2024.01.24Scope and Content
Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about human remains discovered, sometimes as bones unearthed during excavations.Collection
Newspapers, 0001 Anishinabek/Ojibwe/Odawa/Bodéwadmi, Shipwrecks, NauticalCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2024.01Source or Donor
Yoder, ChrisAcquisition Method
Donation, unconditionalNotes
These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping.
Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01Location
* Untyped Location
Digital data in CatalogItRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Hames, Charles ?-1876, Morrison, Stephen A. Jr. 1815-1905, Milwaukie (ship) 1842, 119-121 Butler/Leland's Department Store Building 1907, Crock, Gerrit 1837-1918, Reed, Roger E. 1868-1946, Arndt, Cleo Leui 1911-1974General Notes
Note
"E.L. Leland & Co. of Saugatuck is getting ready to erect a new store building just south of the Saugatuck post office, on the old Stephen Morrison property. In excavating for the basement work men uncovered the skeletons of nearly 30 Indians that must have been buried from 75 to 100 years, as Mr. Morrison came to that vicinity in 1836. The Indians were buried in a sitting posture, the bones being very large and in perfect condition. They will probably be buried elsewhere." -- Holland City News/The Holland Sentinel, Thursday, Feb. 28, 1097Create Date
March 14, 2024Update Date
August 16, 2025
![cr1907110807IndianBonesonCulverSt.jpg "Indian Chief's Bones": Garret Crock finds remains and burial objects on Culver St. Remains sold to Roger Reed who let N. Gerber [?] take them to a "collection of Indian relics" in Fremont.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/8e64aa51-e235-11ee-a665-015cf30c0239-vU4dYI8.lg@2x.jpg)
