Spooky Cementry

Spooky Cemetery

          Let’s take a trip down to a cemetery make sure your heart isn’t in your sleeve, or you don’t have fear crawling all through you’re body.

We’ve just stepped foot into the cemetery and you can smell decay mixed with the freshly planted flowers. You see gravestones from all different era’s   And you stop to notice one head stone that looks to be a lot older than all the others. 

It says Joshua on it and it seems to be an elder that passed away way before the massacre had taken place where at the bottom it reads “Oldest Memorial in Ohio.”You keep walking and you look over to your right and you see a huge white obelisk  that’s probably falling apart since it has been there since

the centennial of the massacre to honor those that had lost their lives. You notice an Ohio Historical marker  We’re going to travel back in time to about March 8^th, 1782 when the “Day of

Shame” happened. Imagine being ripped from you homes weeks before and then sent back to the place you once called home to fetch food for you family who is on the brink of starvation. Well that’s that the Moravian Indians that lived in Gnadenhutten, Port Washington (Salem) and Schoenbrunn. They had been ripped from their homes by British Soldiers where they had taken the Indians up to the Sandusky-Michigan area.  After weeks of being up there their food supply had run real low and a small group of Indians could go back and harvest the corn they had planted a while back. While they were harvesting a militia from Pennsylvania thought they were a group of raiders whom captured them seeking revenge for the captain whose wife and daughter had been taken by a previous group of Indians. They separated the men and women along with children into two separated cabins and begun brutally killing them. 

While you’re there you start to feel goosebumps run across you’re arm as you see one of the tour guides come out from the museum and tells you that sometimes you can hear the shots being fired from two replica cabins that all those people were killed in. Then you look at the mound that sits right beside the museum and the ur guide tells you that it’s full of bones and skulls from all the massacre victims what they could find of them anyway, but they still dig up bones every now and then.

When I think of this place I think of something that has been lost in history through all the years. Not too many people know of the history of what happen especially in the county it happened in. It such a big part of history and why it can be important in our local history today.