The Evening Post, New York
Monday, April 17, 1893

Indian Relics of an Ohio Mound

Valuable finds have been made in the old Indian Mound in Walnut 
Grove, Martins Ferry.Jewels have been taken from this ancient 
tumulus, opals and emeralds and crystals, and the curious whorl-like 
carvings of their settings like those in ancient Irish ornaments, 
know to have made from Phoenicians patterns, because that were found 
everywhere the Phoenicians traded.

The work is being  carried out on slowly at Martins Ferry for fear 
that some of the precious relics be lost or overlooked. One skull 
which has been found is extremely large, nearly twice as big as the 
modern normal, and the skull seems higher then would be expected of 
prehistoric man.

Spearheads, darts, arrowheads, and hatchets beautifully chipped  and 
with neatly drilled holes, have been found in proximity to human 
bones. Two cup-like stones have also been found whose use is 
conjectural. Several of these have been found in the neighborhood of 
the mound, either on the surface or in the earth, but so worn that it 
is difficult to tell whether they had been shaped artificially or 
were something like “lucky stones”of concave natural shapes.

Bones have been found in great plenty, which causes some to think 
that the tumulus was not so much erected to the memory of a great 
chief as it was to a tribal cemetery. However, it may have been that 
captives were sacrificed on the mound-tomes of the chief to be his 
servants in the spirit world.

Contributed by Mary Staley.