Lewis Wetzel, Dark Hero of the Ohio

• Title	Lewis Wetzel, Dark Hero of the Ohio
  Author	James P. Pierce
  Publisher	Name: http://earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/wetzel.html;
  Source ID	S1976
  Linked to Individuals: 1	Wetzel, Lewis Ludwig

  
  

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  Source Medium: Electronic In 1942, almost one hundred thirty five years later, Dr. Albert W. Bowser came down from Chicago and hunted down Wetzel's unmarked grave. First he located Philip Sycks' farm exactly through studying the local court records. This brought him to the hamlet of Rosetta, near Natchez. Once there, he interviewed elderly residents, mostly former slaves, who led him to a grave in what had become a plowed field. Four feet down, they found the skeleton of a man in his forties who was about five feet nine inches tall. Rusted parts of a rifle were at his side. There were also very long hair prints in the soil around the skeleton. They were sure they had found Wetzel. They exhumed the remains and placed them in a small black casket with "LEWIS WETZEL" engraved in silver on the top. Dr. Bowser brought his remains back to Moundsville, West Virginia, where they now rest beside those of his oldest brother Martin, in the McCreary Cemetery, just two miles from the old Wetzel homestead from where he started. West Virginia has named a county and a state highway after him. He was their greatest early frontiersman.