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Indian Mound Cemetery

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Indian Mound Cemetery
Indian Mound Cemetery entrance along U.S. Route 50
Map
Details
Established1859
Location
Romney, West Virginia
CountryUnited States
Coordinates39°20′33″N 78°45′57″W / 39.3425909°N 78.7658481°W / 39.3425909; -78.7658481
TypePrivate
Owned byIndian Mound Cemetery Association, Inc.
No. of graves>2,500
Find a GraveIndian Mound Cemetery
The Political GraveyardIndian Mound Cemetery

Indian Mound Cemetery is a cemetery located along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) on a promontory of the "Yellow Banks" overlooking the South Branch Potomac River and Mill Creek Mountain in Romney, West Virginia, United States.[1][2] The cemetery is centered on a Hopewellian mound, known as the Romney Indian Mound.[3][4] Indian Mound Cemetery is also the site of Fort Pearsall, the Confederate Memorial, Parsons Bell Tower, and reinterments from Romney's Old Presbyterian Cemetery. The cemetery is currently owned and maintained by the Indian Mound Cemetery Association, Inc.[1][4]

Indian Mound Cemetery is the burial site of two governors of West Virginia, a United States House Representative, a United States Secretary of the Army, an owner of the Washington Redskins, and descendants of the family of George Washington.[5]

Days before the 150th anniversary of the Confederate Monument's dedication was to be observed, it was vandalized.[6] The vandalism read "reparations now", and was done using black spray paint. The damage to the monument has since been repaired.[7]

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Hey guys, Praveen here. This is a rare view of what is inside a burial mound which was built about 1500 years ago. We are inside the Museum in Kolomoki Mounds, Georgia and you can see the skeletons of ancient Mound builders and let me show you the outside of the museum so you can understand what is going on here. This is the mound from the outside and the museum building has a part of it. They excavated the mound and we are looking inside an ancient Mound. Here you can see the layout of how a mound looks. A deep ditch in the center and the skeletons of mound builders in different places. You can see one skeleton here, a skull there. Another skeleton here and another skull there. I will explain the skulls without bodies in a minute. But, my first reaction after seeing this was to immediately go to the front desk and I asked them if they are the original skeletons. If they are, we can find the measurements and finally confirm that the mound builders were giants who stood over 7 feet tall. But guess what, all the original mound builder skeletons have been taken to the Smithsonian institution and what we see are just models - Not built to scale. So the mound is real, we are actually looking into a 1500 year old mound, the rocks, the dirt, everything is real except the skeletons. For some strange reason, they have chosen to take the skeletons to Washington D.C which seems to be the repository for all mound builder skeletons. It is disappointing to learn that, but in my visit to over dozens of mounds in different states, this is the only museum that offers a look inside a mound. Now, inside the ditch in the center, you can see one skeleton. You can only see a very small portion of it and the legs are not even shown, as though they are still in the dirt. He was the Giant leader who passed away and this is why this burial mound was built. But you may ask, if it was built solely for burying the leader, what about the other skeletons and skulls. Human sacrifice. The rest of the bodies were all killed and buried along with the Giant. I am not making this up; these are official signs that say as a ceremony, 2 women were strangulated. The skulls belong to the strangulated women. Let's read the archaeologist's report here: Sears described a burial in Mound D that contained five males and two females. He believed seven people were retainers to the chief or spiritual leader. So the skulls belong to the females and the complete skeletons belong to the five men who were sacrificed for the Giant. Here it says, "Their sacrifice at the burial of the PARAMOUNT individual implies that they stood in a socially and ritually subservient position to the PARAMOUNT individual in the society which constructed Mound D" - William Sears 1956. He used the word paramount twice to describe the giant leader which etymologically means one who stood tall. This is probably how the scene looked. Led by the new priest-chief, the people formed a procession, bearing the deceased leader on a log litter. Two females, (perhaps his wives) followed, prepared to sacrifice their lives. Other males for sacrifice walked behind them, leading people carrying vessels, bones, heads, and ashes. This is also the first time, I have seen official signs that explicitly mention human sacrifice, and you won't find this anywhere in History books. This is what separates the Giant mound builders from other Native American tribes. Throughout the history of Native American tribes, they helped each other when in drought, when in need. But the Mound Builders not only looked different but they acted differently. They practiced Human sacrifice, cannibalism and took other tribes as slaves. This is why many authors think they are Nephilim or Fallen angels, because they did evil things. They were feared by other tribes and were a dominant force that built these huge mounds. This view also gives us a good understanding of how the mounds are built. Most people think that mounds are just a pile of dirt, but you can see an arrangement of rocks all over the mound. These rocks were carefully placed along with clay to make it last forever. Understand, if the mounds were just built from dirt, they would have been washed off by now, and won't last for centuries. The rocks excavated from the mound are stacked outside and there are burn marks on all of them. These burnt rocks is also a common feature and found in mounds of Illinois, and Ohio confirming that it was the same people who built these mounds. Please do subscribe for updates. Thank you for watching and talk to you soon.

History

Romney Indian Mound

Romney Indian Mound

Physical description

The Romney Indian mound is a burial mound that measures 7 feet (2.1 m) in height and approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) in diameter, according to the site marker. Since this marker was erected, further research indicates the mound has been opened at some point in the past.[1] It is the largest of the remaining mounds discovered in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.[1][4] The Romney Indian Mound is representative of thousands of small Middle and Late Woodland burial mounds that occurred throughout much of eastern North America.[3] Throughout its history, the Romney Indian Mound has traditionally been covered in pine trees,[8] of which several remain as of 2010. [9]

Origins

The Romney Indian Mound was constructed at what was once the crossroads of the Shawnee Trail, running north and south, and the east-west Indian Road (later the Northwestern Turnpike and U.S. Route 50) leading to the Allegheny Mountains.[1][4][10]

The original owner of the mound, David Gibson, gave the site to the city of Romney on the condition that the mound would not be disturbed.[1][4] For this reason, the city has never allowed the mound to be excavated.[1][4] The Smithsonian Institution suggests the Romney Indian Mound possibly dates from between 500 and 1000 CE given the ages of similar mounds it excavated in the Eastern Panhandle.[1][4] The mound was likely constructed by peoples of the Hopewell culture, who resided within West Virginia between 500 BC and 1,000 CE.[1][4]

The Romney Indian Mound is perhaps the only accessible mound east of the Allegheny Mountains that has been preserved.[10] This is mostly due in part to both its location high above the flood plain of the South Branch Potomac River and that it was never plowed over.[10]

Indian Mound Cemetery Company and Association

Several years prior to the onset of the American Civil War, Romney's Old Presbyterian Cemetery at Gravel Lane and High Street had become full and the city of Romney sought to procure a larger tract for a new spacious cemetery.[8]

Indian Mound Cemetery was incorporated by an act of the Virginia General Assembly around 1859.[1] The land was conveyed to the Indian Mound Cemetery Company by David Gibson on May 31, 1860.[1] The land conveyed by Gibson had previously been a tract of his nearby Sycamore Dale plantation. The cemetery's original design consisted of two plats: the higher plat around the Romney Indian Mound and the lower plat above Sulphur Spring Run reserved for the burials of African Americans.[1] The latter separated from Indian Mound Cemetery and became known as the Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery, which is currently maintained by the Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church.

On May 22, 1869, a meeting was held at the Hampshire County Courthouse to elect a board of directors of the Indian Mound Cemetery Company.[1] The company operated the cemetery until it was incorporated by the state of West Virginia on August 25, 1925, as the Indian Mound Cemetery Association, Inc.[1] The association has been administered by a self-perpetuating board of directors since 1925.[1]

On October 6, 1925, an additional five acres to the north were purchased by the Indian Mound Cemetery Association, Inc. from Hiram C. and Katie Feidner Cooper.[1][11]

American Civil War

Confederate Memorial

Battle of Romney

Due to its strategic location on a bluff commanding views of the South Branch Potomac River, the Romney Covered Bridge, and the Northwestern Turnpike for half a mile, Indian Mound Cemetery was an important lookout position during the American Civil War.[8][12][13][14] On October 22, 1861, Union Army General Scott ordered General Benjamin Franklin Kelley to concentrate his forces at New Creek (now known as Keyser) and attack and capture Romney.[8] Kelley left New Creek early on the morning of October 27 and the Confederate States Army at Romney began preparations for his arrival.[8][12][13][14] The Confederates planted a twelve-pound rifle cannon and a mountain howitzer in Indian Mound Cemetery ready to fire at the lead of the Union Army column as it emerged from Mechanicsburg Gap in Mill Creek Mountain.[8][12][13][14] The Union forces drove in and advanced to Indian Mound Cemetery where the Confederate forces made a stand and opened fire on the Federals with the twelve-pound rifle cannon and the mountain howitzer.[12][13][14] A severe cannonade took place between the artillery of both the Union and Confederate forces for an hour.[15]

Burials

Also during the American Civil War, Indian Mound Cemetery was used as a burial ground by both Union and Confederate armies.[1] The majority of soldiers killed in the vicinity of Romney were buried in blankets in the cemetery, many whose names are unknown.[1] Captain Richard Ashby, the brother of Confederate General Turner Ashby, was interred with all the honors of war under a giant oak tree on July 4, 1861, in Indian Mound Cemetery shortly after his death at nearby Washington Bottom Farm on July 3 from wounds received in a skirmish on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.[5][8][16][17][18] Turner Ashby attended his brother's funeral at Indian Mound Cemetery where his behavior was described in Edward A. Pollard's Southern History of the War as touching:[17][18]

He stood over the grave, took his brother's sword, broke it and threw it into the opening; clasped his hands and looked upward as if in resignation; and then, pressing his lips as if in the bitterness of grief, while a tear rolled down his cheek, he turned without a word, mounted his horse and rode away. Thenceforth his name was a terror to the enemy.[17][18]

Ashby's body was removed from the cemetery to Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, in October 1862 where it was reinterred next to Ashby's brother General Turner Ashby.[5][8][16][17][18] Their grave is marked "The Brothers Ashby."[5][16]

Confederate Memorial

See also: Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)

The Confederate Memorial was erected by local ladies in honor of Hampshire County's Confederate dead and dedicated in Indian Mound Cemetery on September 26, 1867.[1][19][20] It is considered one of the oldest, if not the first, permanent memorials to Confederate dead in the United States.[1][10][19][20]

Notable interments

Grave of Governor John J. Cornwell and his wife Edna Brady Cornwell

Image gallery

  • Iron fence at the entrance
    Iron fence at the entrance
  • Entrance gate and Parsons Bell Tower
    Entrance gate and Parsons Bell Tower
  • Parsons Bell Tower
    Parsons Bell Tower
  • Parsons Bell Tower
    Parsons Bell Tower
  • Caretaker's residence
    Caretaker's residence
  • Romney Indian Mound
    Romney Indian Mound
  • Indian Mound Cemetery and U.S. Route 50 in 1942
    Indian Mound Cemetery and U.S. Route 50 in 1942
  • Unknown Confederate graves, decorated for Confederate Memorial Day
    Unknown Confederate graves, decorated for Confederate Memorial Day
  • Gravestones at Indian Mound Cemetery
    Gravestones at Indian Mound Cemetery
  • Confederate Memorial
    Confederate Memorial
  • Confederate Memorial detail
    Confederate Memorial detail
  • Old Fort Pearsall historical marker
    Old Fort Pearsall historical marker
  • New Fort Pearsall historical marker
    New Fort Pearsall historical marker
  • Washington family plot
    Washington family plot
  • Grave of Gilbert Proctor Miller, founder of Hampshire County's fruit industry
    Grave of Gilbert Proctor Miller, founder of Hampshire County's fruit industry
  • View of Mill Creek Mountain and the South Branch Potomac River
    View of Mill Creek Mountain and the South Branch Potomac River
  • Harmison family marker
    Harmison family marker

See also

References

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