L.C. BAKER
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Slap in the face...interesting. This poses a question...Did wealthy white men, back then, more than likely remove that man from his grave?
Dispose of his body and steal his cemetery plot for something else to be interred in his vault? Do we really know? That just gave me goosebumps...WILL I AM
This man was dug up from beside his wife who was left with no marker and moved to this specific location by Julius Sterling Morton at a time when he was sexton of Wyuka and had full reign of the happenings there. The mans wife was subsequently left without a marker and lost in Wyuka. It was the man's second wife, perhaps she was not considered too important by Mr. Morton? Julius designed this monument area laid the bricks around the monument on his own with some help from laborers of course. The man died in May of 1878 and was removed and placed at the compass point March. 16th, 1882 by Mr Morton by his own doing and cost him $9.00 for labor to dig him up and move him.
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