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| | | Re: Of Grave Concern < Reply # 103 on 8/6/2018 7:02 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | These are from an abandoned cemetery now part of a National Wildlife Refuge. I think there are more people here than the number of stones would indicate. 1. Not sure why Mandy's photograph came out so weird looking. It's actually pretty clear on the actual stone. You can still see what she looked like. 2. 3. 4. This stone was broken and lying on the ground last time I was here. Someone has taken the time to try to clean these up a lot. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Most of these stones were placed by the Royal Order of Friends of the World, an African-American fraternal insurance organization. The "Lily White" circle (No, I don't know why they called it that) was the local chapter.
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| | | Re: Of Grave Concern < Reply # 113 on 8/23/2018 2:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This is the mass grave in Peshtigo, WI. Often overlooked by the more "popular" Great Chicago Fire that occurred on the same day (Oct 8th 1871), the Great Peshtigo Fire is the single deadliest fire in American History. It claimed 1500 lives from a population of 1700. Chicago lost 300 lives. The surrounding area has reports of up to 2500 lives lost in total. Of those who survived, they did so by seeking refuge in the freezing Peshtigo River. Many of the death were from hypothermia as a result from the icy river. 1,200,00 acres of land burned. Chicago lost 2,100 acres. It burned with such veracity that it created a firestorm, with air being drawn into to oxygen hungry flames at a speed of up to 200mph. Flames burned at as much as 2,000F. Yet another fire raged on the same day as well in Door County, just across Green Bay from Peshtigo. 128 people died in that fire. I do not know of Chicago (other than Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over the lantern is a myth), but the counties involved in the 2 fires here on that day had not seen rain since early July, 3 months prior. There are the remains of 350 people in this grave. Most of whom could not be identified because there was no family left to identify them. I cannot even fathom what this must have been like to survive. Just a horrifying tale.
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